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Recent Examples of leathery
Those bones also needed to be strong, though, to support the load of the tough, leathery wing membranes.
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 Feb. 2025
Beach vitex has small, round leaves and a smooth, leathery texture.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Feb. 2025
But since the skin is quite leathery and not as tearable as a banana peel, this is one occasion in which proper tools make the task much quicker and easier.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2025
Again came her measured footsteps, and with them Dev’s first encounter with the impossible, leathery taste of whiskey.
—Kanak Kapur, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 Feb. 2025
Beach vitex has small, round leaves and a smooth, leathery texture.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Feb. 2025
But since the skin is quite leathery and not as tearable as a banana peel, this is one occasion in which proper tools make the task much quicker and easier.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2025
Again came her measured footsteps, and with them Dev’s first encounter with the impossible, leathery taste of whiskey.
—Kanak Kapur, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leathery
Adjective
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The tougher policy changes are adding to the minors’ trauma, advocates say.—
Nicol León,
AZCentral.com,
22 July 2025
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The trio had no phone signal to call for help, due to being so far down in the cave, and so Kate made the tough decision to leave the boys to find help.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
21 July 2025
Adjective
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Whether your hair is naturally dry or parched from excessive color treatments and heat styling, brittle strands are a stubborn bummer.—
Annie Blackman,
Glamour,
14 July 2025
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Models that aren’t trained that way—like early LLMs trained mainly with vanilla imitation learning—tend to be brittle and error-prone.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 July 2025
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“Leathery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leathery. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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