Take a breather, do some inner accounting, shed worn skin.

NEWYORKER: Stone Mattress

The scandal lets her shed her skin: among other things, she can identify as a Latina from the wrong side of the tracks, instead of as a private-school-educated white girl.

NEWYORKER: Seen but Not Heard

The show has shed its original skin, that of the antihero drama, in which we root for a bad boy in spite of ourselves.

NEWYORKER: Child��s Play

To allow Nokia finally to shed its hardware skin, Mr Elop, a former senior executive at Microsoft, was brought in and apparently given what Mr Kallasvuo never had: carte blanche.

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At the slightest friction, Jake's skin would shed, leaving the newborn wailing in pain.

CNN: A mother's plea: Heal my children's skin

These cells pile up on the surface of the skin when the body cannot shed them fast enough, leading to unsightly patches of raised red skin covered by a flaky white build-up.

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