scrubbed

Example Sentences

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Spirit began canceling certain Friday evening flights and then scrubbed red-eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

No one was hurt, she scrubbed the thought from her head and became the upstanding moral citizen she is today.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

In August 2025, a Crew-11 launch was scrubbed at T-minus 1 minute due to cloud cover and a small thunderstorm near Cape Canaveral violating weather safety criteria.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Casey Wasserman’s name has been scrubbed from the agency he founded decades ago, replaced with an amorphous moniker: “The Team.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

The occasional tree became an occasional shrub, and then a piece of driftwood, scrubbed white by the sand.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri