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During its first few million years, however, the young Sun was surrounded by a dense protoplanetary disk containing roughly 100 times more gas than dust.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
The monument will be installed in a park in Callao, a nearby port city, after being coated with polyurethane foam and fiberglass, and finished with a marble dust.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Rather than mixing chondrules and icy dust evenly, the young Solar System strongly favored chondrules in some of its earliest planetesimals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
But some later forget about their profiles, leaving them to gather dust on the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
She smelled of ash and dust, old cloth and bitter herbs.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Snow sometimes dusts the surrounding slopes, melting by afternoon into damp earth as manzanita and mountain lilac begin to flower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
Under the blazing Mexican sun, Maria Couoh dusts off the skull of her late uncle Tomas.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025
A stray cat she encounters on the road reminds her of herself, both of them having "weathered the wind and rain for years but still managing to love this world that dusts our faces".
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2025
Then, standing atop scaffolding, Pucci dusts the statue with a synthetic brush and sucks up any particles with a specially designed vacuum strapped to her back.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
It had a lot of things in it he couldn’t identify: flowers, chemistries, dusts, winds.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
Think a disinterred Ross Perot, hastily dusted off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
"Avengers: Endgame" dusted competitors in the North American weekend box office, as the 2019 super hero film was re-released in a bid to drum up support for the franchise.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Ding dusted off the same all-out approach China had used to produce its first atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs and satellites in the 1960s during a rift with the Soviet Union.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But Muchova dusted herself down to fight again, bringing up her second match point by sending Gauff wide before slamming home an inside-out forehand winner into the corner.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
He stood up and dusted off his jeans.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
The 85,976-strong crowd went through their celebratory songbook, dusting off their Cranberries-inspired ode to head coach Rassie Erasmus.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
In fact, it is backfiring, dusting the world in optimistic, spring-flower pink schadenfreude.
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
As external accounts face mounting pressure amid the prolonged Middle East conflict, India’s dusting off a playbook used before to arrest non-essential demand, Barclays economists say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
A light dusting of snow fell on the area on Monday, signalling the upcoming start of the ski season.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
I was hoping she’d be dusting or something in another part of the house by then.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
