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duster

[duhs-ter] / ˈdʌs tər /




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It’s an arresting image that signals the production’s bold, stylized approach to this canonical text, often treated as an antique that requires only a feather duster to be brought back to life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

She was dressed in a lacy white duster over slacks and T-shirt and her shoes were not meant for hiking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Hefner’s wife and children said he began as a crop duster and had an aviation career that spanned more than 40 years.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Hankey even hired a crop duster to fly over half of his 30 acres to test whether the plane would move more pollen around in the air and improve fertilization.

From Reuters ● Dec. 21, 2022

They sat in comfortable silence while she watched him buffing his brogues with a yellow duster.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Procter & Gamble reported volume declined 2% in the latest quarter in its home and fabric-care division, which includes brands like Tide detergent, Dawn dish liquid and Swiffer dusters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

Every time a banana tree sprouts a leaf, it's newly vulnerable to fungal infection, so farmers spray fungicide from crop dusters and enclose growing fruits in plastic bags loaded with insecticide to deter bugs.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023

“We want to be recognized like everyone else. We need health and safety, too,” Sanchez said while marching alongside hundreds of workers waving brooms and dusters outside the Capitol in Sacramento in late August.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Special Operations Command, used to flying some of the most sophisticated, stealthy, high-tech planes ever built, will soon be going to war in modified, souped-up crop dusters, the Pentagon says.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2022

He passes me a couple of dusters and a can of polish.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler


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