- present participle of peel.
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Or maybe you’ve experienced the unique frustration of peeling off a price tag and ending up with a stubborn gooey patch?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Inside, the furniture, walls and ceiling are completely blackened, and parts of the ceiling is peeling off.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
But the military has regained the initiative after peeling off two significant ethnic factions with Beijing-backed truces -- the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Ta'ang National Liberation Army.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
On the day Al-Zaharnah monitored the excavation, the crews were working at a painfully slow pace, peeling back the pancaked layers of the building one by one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
To me, it looked as if you could have thrown a pumpkin straight down his throat and never scratched the peeling on one of his long teeth.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Piles of agricultural waste — wheat husks, pulped sugar beets, onion peelings, even chicken droppings — have been prepared to be fed into the giant bubble-like fermentation tanks.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
Mr. Bottura has teamed up with chefs from his restaurants to produce four video lessons with tips for using items like vegetable peelings for a sauce and bread crusts to make a caramel cake.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
The peelings, left by some of the 160,000 visitors to Britain's highest mountain, can take as long as two years to degrade.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2019
Elsewhere, children begged at the doors of more well-off neighbors, hoping for stale bread, table scraps, or raw potato peelings.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Her cheeks flushed, and she began to gather the shreds of good potato from on top of the pile of peelings.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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