duster
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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
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
“I hate this play and every word in it,” she says, before throwing down her duster like a mic drop.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
Sometimes the ponds receive not only contaminated runoff but also a direct dose as crop-dusting pilots neglect to shut off the duster in passing over a pond.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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
She was "made invisible" under dusters and mops.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2023
When we’d all gathered in front of the house, the girls in dusters, the boys in linen suits, Mother would call the roll.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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