What nine-letter word still remains a complete word if you remove one letter at a time, down to a single letter?

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What nine-letter word remains a valid word after you remove one letter at a time, all the way down to a single letter?

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"Starting." Removing letters one by one in the right order leaves "staring," "string," "sting," "sing," "sin," "in," and "I" — each step a real word.

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