grooming

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A recent poll put the cost of a date, including gas prices and personal grooming, at $189, up from $165 in 2025.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

Do you have any grooming or ritual or skin care rituals?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

To investigate how great apes manage their social lives, researchers examined social grooming behavior in 24 groups of chimpanzees and bonobos.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

White said that in addition to better pay, the department needs to look at other strategies to recruit people, such as softening the department’s policies on uniforms and grooming.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Mother steps out of the den, lopes to me, and begins grooming my fur.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz