rubbing
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President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures, released Tuesday by the U.S. government, are rubbing salt in their wounds.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Officials said that several children outside in a patio area were roasting marshmallows on a device called Flikr Fire, a tabletop fireplace kit that uses rubbing alcohol for fuel and was recalled in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
He described the pain as "bone rubbing on bone" affecting his mobility, driving and quality of life.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
That social-media exposure appears to be rubbing off on the younger generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
That morning I added a fourteenth notch to the tree trunk, yawning and rubbing my eyes.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Similarly, a study published in May in the journal Communications Biology found that elephants form complex "sentences" through their various rumbles, ear flags, trunk rubbings and other actions.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2024
In 2016 graphic designer Marina Willer created a booklet of neon rubbings; manhole colouring books are available for people seeking mindfulness; and a Shoreditch company offers framed prints of rubbings for £80.
From BBC ● May 14, 2021
It’s a sentiment Judy summed up in a poem she wrote to accompany her “Group” rubbings:
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2020
Here they’re tearing up the Interstate in a 1969 Plymouth Satellite, coming from the Keys, where they spent a few productive days touring the local cemetery pursuing Serge’s latest hobby, making tombstone rubbings.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
But Gogol is silent, his rubbings rolled up carefully like parchment in his lap.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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