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scaling
[ skey-ling ]
noun
- the removal of calculus and other deposits on the teeth by means of instruments.
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- non·scaling adjective
- un·scaling adjective
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Example Sentences
They ended up crawling for much of the journey, scaling electric fences and fending off wild animals in freezing conditions.
Journalists are leaving Kabul, embassies are downsizing, and donors are quietly and drastically scaling back.
That means that financial innovation is now as important to scaling up renewable energy as engineering innovation.
Their fourth comrade, left behind at the cemetery, attempted scaling a fence and wound up in the hospital the next day.
Or they might realize that they should be scaling back on the caffeine use and stop going.
A half dozen troopers had already dismounted, and were scaling the bluff to where a small wreath of smoke was seen curling.
Insist upon keeping a scarlet fever or measles patient out of school until all scaling has ceased.
These three diseases are infectious before the scaling begins, sometimes before the rash is well out.
Cheveaux-de-frise of pointed sticks protected the fort from a scaling party.
Then the scaling ladders were brought, the rush was made, and the castle taken.
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