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marrow

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as in pith

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Recent Examples of marrow These children die early in life unless their impaired immune system is re-created with bone-marrow transplants. —

Jerome Groopman, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 Traditionally eaten to restore the sick, the broth is rich with marrow from long hours of braising. —

Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 8 Mar. 2026 How has this line of thinking—useful knowledge, practical life—become the marrow of lower-class conditioning? —

Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026 Suck the marrow out of life as the moon and Venus harmonize. —

Usa Today, USA Today, 7 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for marrow

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Nearly 500 years before, a Franciscan friar arrived in what is now the state of Jalisco carrying a 13-inch icon of the Virgin Mary that had been molded by Indigenous craftsmen from a paste of corn pith and orchid bulbs.

— Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
Place one cut end on the surface of the cutting board for stability, then use your knife to carefully trim the peel away, from top to bottom, following the contour of the fruit to remove the peel and white pith.

— Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2026