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Recent Examples of dog-eared My esteemed coworkers in Vulture’s book Slack, in fact, suggested that copies of The Secret of Secrets should come pre-wrinkled and dog-eared, with salt stains and sand in the pages. Emily Heller, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025 Sometimes they’ve been torn, smudged, folded or dog-eared. Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025 My copies of these books are now dog-eared to death and as appropriately stained as favorite kitchen tools. Lisa Donovan, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025 Novel as the experience is for her, the spookiness surrounding it is as familiar and dog-eared as scripture: creepy nuns, ominous robed figures, lots of cheap jump scares. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024 Tampa Bay is still a very good team, even if a bit dog-eared around the edges of its elite personnel. Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dog-eared
Adjective
  • The dilapidated Johnson Inn still stands on a valuable Porter Beach lakefront parcel almost two years after the town of Porter issued condemnation orders.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Kumar purchased the dilapidated former Burger King last year and plans to convert the building into a commissary and test kitchen to create new menu items for his other restaurants and to provide training for his cooks.
    Tyler Williams, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Some who have tolerated a static image on a neglected part of their screen may not be as accepting of more distracting ad formats.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2025
  • This was to help end the puppy mill industry, where dogs are bred en masse, leading them to be born and raised in filthy and neglected conditions.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The other traditional party, the Liberal Party, has splintered between those who remain loyal to Zelaya and those who led the coup, including Mauricio Villeda, the presidential candidate who leads a tattered vestige of his party.
    Dana Frank, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2013
  • What if standing up to Trump is the very thing that saves the Liberal Party, and Trudeau’s tattered legacy?
    Talib Visram, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025

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“Dog-eared.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dog-eared. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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