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  • past tense form of rub.
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"I climbed into bed, I turned over and I saw something outside. I rubbed my eyes because my vision is failing and I could still see it and it moved," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Huerta rubbed shoulders with some of America's most influential people over decades in the public eye.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

She’s coming from Boston every weekend, and she’s rubbed a lot of people in town the wrong way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

A tan-in-a-bottle used to be considered gauche, but a booming interest in skin-care in recent years has rubbed off on self-tanners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Maybe if you rubbed some of that stuff on your leg, it would help.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls


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