rubbing
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To be clear, I’m not sitting here rubbing my hands with glee, thinking I’m immune to dementia or a heart attack and I’ll stay young forever.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
“It was heartbreaking,” he said, rubbing his bald head with his eyes closed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
She fancies it a joke to get the townspeople off her back, rubbing their traditions back in their faces.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
In a video accompanying the ad, Kelce could be seen rubbing shoulders with a host of famous faces, including Gigi Hadid, Frances Tiafoe, and Carmelo Anthony, while making his way through Manhattan’s famed Plaza Hotel.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
I could feel my toes sticking out, rubbing against the worn leather of my shoes.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
Yet her true love, a 19th-century dead guy, is in the graveyard, where she hangs out to make grave rubbings and daydream.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Macie and his resident partner, Sophie Lynn Morris, also made Måla modeling dough casts of the fissures found on display furniture and crayon rubbings off the splintering cement floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
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
“Didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. Was it something I said? The rubbings, they’re for a local history project, it’s not as if I’m, you know, digging up bones or anything.”
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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