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broom

[broom, broom] / brum, brʊm /
NOUN
device for cleaning floors
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When the AI reported “a person is jumping from the roof of a house,” it was Soderstrom again, this time standing up quickly in the lanai and grabbing a hose or broom, she recalled.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

He asked them to bring their “tools” — broom, stethoscope, an oxygen tank—and posed them against a lightly wrinkled cloth backdrop with natural light.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

Some predicted they would be swept, but they could be doing the broom bit.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

Before picking up a single scrub brush or broom, give yourself a map to your own kitchen by writing out the zones you’ll be tackling.

From Salon Mar. 19, 2026

The princess grabbed Jack on the next go-around, and between the two, they managed to pull the broom back down to the floor.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

Staff and volunteers, recruited with support from the council office, were about to head into nearby streets with shovels, brooms and trash bags.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2026

A few distant screeches of brooms on cobblestone, that’s all.

From Salon Nov. 8, 2025

Tens of thousands of workers with brooms and shovels have been deployed, assisted by snow plows in the hardest-hit regions.

From Seattle Times Feb. 20, 2024

The court heard a shipping container storing the brooms arrived at London Gateway Port on 23 October 2021 and was transported to an industrial unit in Kent close to Pamper Cleaning.

From BBC Dec. 14, 2023

At night, hours later, the cleanup men would arrive with brooms and hoses.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien




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