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Recent Examples of calf
All-Star forward Alyssa Thomas missed Friday’s game with a calf injury.
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John W. Davis, Oc Register, 31 May 2025
Hiking uses your gluteal muscles, quadriceps, hamstrings and calves, and requires sturdiness of all the joints—ankles, feet, hips, and knees.
—Ingrid Yang Md, Outside Online, 29 May 2025
Moose calves are born in a three- to four-week window from the end of May to mid-June and will often lie in the willows while mom is off grazing.
—Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2025
What’s happening 155th Silver Spurs Rodeo: Events include bull riding, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, barrel racing, team roping, calf roping and steer wrestling.
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2025
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John W. Davis, Oc Register, 31 May 2025
Hiking uses your gluteal muscles, quadriceps, hamstrings and calves, and requires sturdiness of all the joints—ankles, feet, hips, and knees.
—Ingrid Yang Md, Outside Online, 29 May 2025
Moose calves are born in a three- to four-week window from the end of May to mid-June and will often lie in the willows while mom is off grazing.
—Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2025
What’s happening 155th Silver Spurs Rodeo: Events include bull riding, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, barrel racing, team roping, calf roping and steer wrestling.
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calf
Noun
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To progress this exercise, place your hands on your thighs.—
Aubrey Bailey,
Verywell Health,
11 June 2025
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Pass the ends of the wire under the thighs and cross over the leg joints; twist to secure.—
Peter Barrett,
Outside Online,
9 June 2025
Noun
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With a stream up to his shins, Glover poked a shot back into the fairway and eventually made bogey.—
Jordan Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
17 May 2025
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Rosie Gorman, 22, was doing a series of backflips during a cheerleading competition when her shins slammed into a wall, resulting in an injury doctors likened to a car crash, according to The Daily Mail.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
14 May 2025
Noun
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One day alone in a concrete cell the size of a parking space scarred him as much as the metal shank that slashed his face and chest, Bacote said.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
30 May 2025
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Two of the visible Air tubes on the heel host Lego branding, including a Minifigure head at the rear, and iridescent detailing is used for the midfoot shank and mustache.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
29 May 2025
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“Calf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calf. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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