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If you didn’t brush your teeth well enough, you will eventually be paying for that at the dentist!

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

The California Highway Patrol received a call at approximately 8:21 a.m. about a brush fire on the right side of the southbound 405 Freeway at the westbound 101 Freeway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Both books inevitably brush against today’s argument over the American founding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Inside the exhibition space, she uses a small painter’s brush to slowly paint the white walls red over the course of the show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

He felt Wolf’s breath on his face; then the downy brush of the cub’s whiskers on his eyelids, and the needle-fine grooming-nibbles on his cheeks and throat.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

TAICHUNG, Taiwan—The first course arrived on a miniature lacquered rack, the kind you’d expect to hold ink brushes in a scholar’s studio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

After so long on the road, driving past despair dotted along the road’s shoulders, Day brushes off a cry for help with a joke.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

After collecting the cells, the team removes the material from the brushes and uses forensic-level, next-generation sequencing technologies to isolate and amplify genetic sequences.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Daniele Garner brushes a yak at the Pettee Ranch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Mom brushes the final knot out of my hair.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

For decades, testosterone deficiency was overlooked and under-researched, and, for many men, symptoms were brushed off as natural signs of aging.

From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026

They admired one another from afar, brushed shoulders only in passing, and, in some ways, represented opposing ways of challenging the limits placed on women in indie rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Hawaii is still recovering from the impacts of Hurricane Lala, which brushed past the southern part of the Big Island last month, bringing destructive winds and severe flash floods.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Despite the drama that has ensued since trade talks between the U.S. and its northern neighbor collapsed last Friday, bank CEOs brushed off the potential fallout during earnings calls this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“It has to be someplace where no one will see or hear”—I brushed the pixies out of my eyes—“and where there are as few pixies as possible.”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Moments after Manchester City had put down their first heavyweight marker of the post-Pep Guardiola era by brushing aside Crystal Palace, he was asked live on TV how much he enjoyed the game.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Edison explained structure brushing in an article last year, describing how it cleared all vegetation around certain equipment, creating a 10-foot barrier to reduce the fire risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

You can also practise standing on one leg, for example while brushing your teeth.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

After initially brushing off LLMs, DeepMind was developing its own chatbots.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

“Oh, hello, Duane. We’ve just been discussing a proper brushing regimen for keeping one’s fur lustrous.”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el