A word if you take one letter away at a time you will be left with a two letter word

Question

A word where if you take away one letter away at a time you end up with a two letter word.

What is it?

Hint 1:

It is an 8 letter word

Hint 2:

The final word left is in

@D Welcome to Puzzling.SE! I doubt if this is too broad. Please be noted that excessively broad questions may face the crisis of being closed. Happy Puzzling! — Omega Krypton, Dec 23 '18 at 09:58
Welcome! Do you mean to say that you get a new word each time you remove a letter? Otherwise many words would qualify as long as they have a two letter word inside them! — SteveV, Dec 23 '18 at 10:08

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 23 '18 at 10:27

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To suggest a word not found in the dupe,

Starling

can be decomposed as

 STARLING
 STAR ING
 ST R ING
 ST   ING
 S    ING
 S    IN
      IN

answered Dec 23 '18 at 10:27

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