dregs
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“Tow” might not be a knockout, but it’s far from the dregs of cinema.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026
“Heart Eyes” has two goals: satirize romantic comedies and squeeze the dregs from slasher clichés.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025
Models suggest that the last dregs of the magma ocean crystallized into dense minerals including ilmenite, a mineral containing titanium and iron.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024
Many fishermen feel they're being left the dregs once the seas have been divided up by other industries.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023
Although our primary water tank was down to the dregs before the Tap-Out, there was an older one on top of the hill that had been taken out of service.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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