What if this was the only question on the exam to pass high school English and earn your diploma. Would you graduate?

Okay you brainiacs, here is a brain teaser for you. What nine letter word in the English language is still a word when each of the nine letters is removed one by one?

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(Try it! Move a letter - one at a time - to create common words all the way to a one-letter word!)