brush away
Example Sentences
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It’s a terrible mess in Ann Arbor, impossible for even college football to brush away.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025
Leaders have learned much about fire prevention techniques since then, he noted, such as building with nonflammable materials and clearing brush away from houses.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025
But when the start-up company OpenAI began making public its “generative” AI tools — including the popular ChatGPT chatbot — it led competitors to brush away their previous, relatively cautious approaches to the tech.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2023
In photographs, she is seen holding a broom that she would now use to brush away insects from her path to avoid accidentally stepping on them.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2023
Three renowned scientists promptly traveled to New Mexico and watched Figgins’s team brush away the dirt from the point and extract it from the gully.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
