duster
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It’s an arresting image that signals the production’s bold, stylized approach to this canonical text, often treated as an antique that requires only a feather duster to be brought back to life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Find a duster extender or ladder to make sure you can reach the ceiling and the tops of cabinets and refrigerators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
Hankey even hired a crop duster to fly over half of his 30 acres to test whether the plane would move more pollen around in the air and improve fertilization.
From Reuters ● Dec. 21, 2022
“I hate this play and every word in it,” she says, before throwing down her duster like a mic drop.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
The sky was barely getting light and the birds just beginning to wake up and sing when I tiptoed downstairs in my Sunday suit and my new linen duster.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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Procter & Gamble reported volume declined 2% in the latest quarter in its home and fabric-care division, which includes brands like Tide detergent, Dawn dish liquid and Swiffer dusters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Every time a banana tree sprouts a leaf, it's newly vulnerable to fungal infection, so farmers spray fungicide from crop dusters and enclose growing fruits in plastic bags loaded with insecticide to deter bugs.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023
Special Operations Command, used to flying some of the most sophisticated, stealthy, high-tech planes ever built, will soon be going to war in modified, souped-up crop dusters, the Pentagon says.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
Dressed in pink smocks, they frolic among the clothing racks, brandishing dusters and brooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Yet some 7,000,000 pounds of parathion are now applied to fields and orchards of the United States — by hand sprayers, motorized blowers and dusters, and by airplane.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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