dirt
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The 85-year-old US entrepreneur and personality has deleted a photo of herself wearing torn clothes and dirt on her face, holding a sign saying: "I am hungry help me!!"
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Joey Ortiz fielded it cleanly, set his feet—and threw the ball straight into the dirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
“I’m not saying the AI revolution isn’t real, but why not take some chips off the table and put on the unnoticed parts of the market small-cap value, emerging-markets value are trading dirt cheap.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
With her cover blown anyway, Khosla crosses the powdery dirt yard to the trailer at the chipping yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
She had dirt smeared all over her face and looked cross.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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