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
She makes a "smoothie" out of her fluffy yellow cream, rubbing blobs on the back of her hand and mixing it with a tinted moisturiser.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
That social-media exposure appears to be rubbing off on the younger generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
In that light, his tip wasn’t a kindness but a form of mockery: the billionaire Trump rubbing everyone’s noses in how vast the gulf is between them.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
I fall backward and he flops over, landing in my lap, legs in the air, belly exposed for rubbing.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
Dwan also took up painting, making one series from tree rubbings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2022
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
On the ride back to school the rubbings made by the other children are torn up, crumpled, tossed at one another’s heads, abandoned below the dark green seats.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Visual Arts - Introductory
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