scrubbed

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No one was hurt, she scrubbed the thought from her head and became the upstanding moral citizen she is today.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

In August 2025, a Crew-11 launch was scrubbed at T-minus 1 minute due to cloud cover and a small thunderstorm near Cape Canaveral violating weather safety criteria.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Decades of pollution regulations had scrubbed the valley’s air so much that those particles were vanishing—and the fog with them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

The face of an angel on a restored church fresco in Rome that sparked outrage because of its likeness to Italy's prime minister, has been crudely scrubbed out by the artist who painted it.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

They had washed their hands and faces and scrubbed them well with soap, at the wash-basin on the bench in the kitchen.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder