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A brush fire that broke out Monday afternoon in the hills around La Habra Heights has affected multiple homes, with at least one destroyed, flames leaping from another and more under threat, according to authorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 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

I unscrew the bottle and pull the brush from the pot of dark red liquid.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

When we wonder about his Ukrainian surname, he brushes that off as irrelevant.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Nvidia’s statement concedes that “once released, the weights are beyond the original developer’s control, and modified versions are difficult to trace or reverse”—then brushes this concern aside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

"Cytology brushes can be used when dry and do an excellent job of harvesting cellular material without damaging the integrity of the artifact being sampled," says Breen.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Babs goes to sit on the side of Mom’s bed and brushes her hair away from her face like Mom always does for me.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

She brushed a strand of hair away from her face.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

But Dyson, 79 years old, spent six years inventing an AI-powered toothbrush that promises to floss teeth at the same time as brushing them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

“I don’t go that deep,” he says, brushing it aside when asked whether there are certain questions he’s trying to answer about being human.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

“I figured out why you and Chip were adopted in different states,” Katherine announced one night as Jonah was brushing his teeth.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix