hairbrush
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The family prayed as McCormick’s great-grandson built a small plywood coffin that was filled with gifts and necessities for the next world, such as her granddaughter’s artwork and a hairbrush.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
DNA from Bryan's late mother's hairbrush was later found to be a familial match to traces on the victim's vest and clump of hair.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023
She wanted to retrieve her medicine, and if memory serves all these years later, also a hairbrush and a photograph from her apartment.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
He always “dressed to impress” and carried a hairbrush with him and envisioned one day being his own boss, Elizabeth Dockery said.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2022
As she had guessed, a thick hairbrush with a wooden handle lay on the shelf beside the sink.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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"Back in the day, we'd have war zones over hairbrushes," says Raye.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025
As whales were hunted for their oil, people fashioned baleen into products such as hairbrushes and corsets.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2021
Inside was a gray-checked suit, two hairbrushes, various paperwork and an identity photo showing his pensive face.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2021
Jackson Simmonds from the Julien Farel Restore Salon & Spa was also there, with a curling iron, hair dryer and boar bristle hairbrushes in his Longchamp tote.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2015
Instead, we're holding hairbrushes and dancing around your room.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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