mop
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By about 6 p.m., forward progress had been stopped, with crews remaining at the site to mop up, Stewart said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Spaniard was wearing a compression sleeve on his right arm, and the skin fade of earlier in the year has been replaced by a mop of black hair.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Hundreds of young Russians gathered outside a Moscow courthouse where Yabloko’s bespectacled chairman, Nikolai Rybakov, who has a mop of brown hair and looks like a small-town librarian, spent hours appealing the ruling in vain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Households in India have long relied on an informal army of domestic workers to mop floors, wash dishes and cook meals.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
“I’m Okeoma,” the man with the tangled mop of uncombed hair said.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Perhaps England could have pushed towards 290, but Axar induced Dawson into a pull to deep square, then the left-arm spinner mopped up the tail.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
"I have mopped my room more than eight times," she told AFP.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
At First Watch, by the end of Fermine’s shift at around 3 p.m., he will have washed hundreds of dishes, taken out the trash and mopped up the dish room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Large investment firms mopped up foreclosed homes after the 2008 housing crash, placing a floor on prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
So she reached for a rag instead and mopped his face with it.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
The robots carried out some tasks — such as mopping, vacuuming, wiping and dusting — with surprising skill.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Routine tasks such as mopping floors, spraying countertops, and wiping surfaces with scented products generate billions or trillions of particles, with the total depending on the product.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
For Katya, a professional events organiser, the parties have stopped - and her world and life have been disrupted following the raid, trial and community service spent mopping hospital floors.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
They are also essential workhorses, often the last to leave at night, after mopping floors and taking out the trash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Ophie didn’t say anything, just went back to mopping.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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