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To maintain the nonstick qualities, rub about a ¼ teaspoon of oil over a clean, warm pan after cooking from time to time.

As legend has it, rubbing a ticket on the songbird figurine inside the store will increase the purchaser’s chance of cashing out.

Eddie Glaude Jr. slumps a bit as he rubs his forehead, the universal sign of being overwhelmed by the flood of partisan nonsense Aaron Tang fictionalizes in “Breaking the Deadlock: Truth Under Fire.”

“I felt like I was in a hole,” she said, rubbing her chest above her heart.

When the rotating building blocks rub together strongly enough, the solid can fragment into many smaller spinning crystallites.