dust
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“If I get even a speck of dust on me outside, I have to come home and scrub my hands until they’re raw just to feel clean,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The team also plans to assemble a detailed database of infrared fingerprints produced by different types of laboratory made cosmic dust.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
From about 4.56 billion to 3.5 billion years ago, meteorites, micrometeorites and interplanetary dust particles from asteroids and comets repeatedly struck Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
The fervor goes beyond the historic rivalry between Pele's Brazil and Diego Maradona's Argentina: Mexico, Colombia, Chile and others are all hoping Lionel Messi's Albiceleste bite the dust on Sunday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
And they left nothing behind but the road and dust.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
But unlike most, the 27-year-old mum-of-three is watched by thousands online as she scrubs, dusts and declutters her home, as part of a popular social media trend known as a "reset".
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025
Newspapers are stuffed into cracks in their walls, and snow dusts their meager furniture.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
Then she dusts the dough with flour and does this complicated folding, squishing thing before rolling it into flat circles and frying the parathas.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Because once the World Cup is done and dusted, the Nations League kicks-off in the autumn, with Portugal's first fixture after north America a home game with Wales.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Two years ago, EGA dusted off its American expansion plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Accordingly, the advocates of inflation-indexing of capital gains have dusted off a workaround that first surfaced in 1992, during the George H. W. Bush administration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
Each one was slightly imperfect, dusted generously with cinnamon.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
He washed and polished it once a week and dusted it every day with a rag he kept underneath the front seat.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
Granted, rebalancing is one of those periodic chores that’s easy to neglect, like dusting your refrigerator coils.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
In fact, it is backfiring, dusting the world in optimistic, spring-flower pink schadenfreude.
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
Platner is dusting Mills by lopsided margins in polling averages.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
Rainfall totals of half an inch to 1.5 inches are expected in the mountain and foothill regions, and there is a chance of a dusting of snow in areas above 6,000 feet elevation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
I spent a moment at Miss Maggie’s cistern, dusting myself off and sluicing rainwater over my head, before I met her at her door.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
