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“I am glad that the President has sloughed off that idea of colonization,” Lincoln’s personal secretary, John Hay, wrote on that day, referencing the fiasco in Haiti and Chiriquí.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2023

He so far has sloughed off the critics.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2016

Never Shout Never represents the inflection point at which it has sloughed off all of its punk pretentions and been distilled down to its folk essence.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2010

The War Department has sloughed off his temporary rank of Brigadier General and called him home.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the whole part has sloughed, it should be removed as rapidly as possible, and antiseptic dressings used.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman