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lint

[lint] / lɪnt /


NOUN
fluff
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Thirteen billion dollars, beaten by a lint trap.

From MarketWatch May 21, 2026

“I can’t tell you how many people think their phone is dead because there is pocket lint in the port,” says Wiens.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 2025

As he put it, “The speed of light is never going to go out of style. Gravity, lint, signs, time itself, is not going to go out of style.”

From Salon May 22, 2024

To the untrained eye, it looks like a speck of black lint, not much larger than the tip of a pin.

From New York Times May 10, 2024

David picked at a piece of lint on his sweater.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine




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