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dusty

adjective as in filled with or covered with powdery particles

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Sitting on the dusty steps of a New Haven apartment building, the generational divide suddenly looks a lot more like a wall, one that’s fortified to separate these two women for good.

From Salon

The mudstones, found in a dusty riverbed by Nasa's Perseverance Rover, are dotted with intriguing markings nicknamed leopard spots and poppy seeds.

From BBC

If someone told Michael Ubaldini that dusty copies of his old band’s records from four decades ago would sell for hundreds of dollars each, he probably wouldn’t have believed it.

Sharing a cold cucumber salad from the hotel’s in-house restaurant, they gazed across the spacious pool area with its wide platform loungers and stucco walls that perfectly matched the color of the dusty landscape beyond.

They scrounged for clean blankets, saline and other emergency medical supplies in the dusty and mud-caked camp.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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