scrub
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Singleton said National Trust tenant farmers were managing the land to support wildlife with areas of longer grass, maintaining hedgerows and patches of scrub.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Or scrub it clean and build afresh, trusting that Jewish memory doesn’t need harsh visual aids to remain vigilant?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Along the Beagle Channel, an icy stretch of water at the southern tip of the Americas, a concrete slab rises from hills covered in low, brownish scrub.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Burn the sandwich, toast it again; scrub every plate and punch out with pride.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
I brush my teeth and scrub my face, being careful not to use too much water.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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The 22-year-old accessed the hospital while wearing medical scrubs, NHS branded clothing, a stethoscope and a pager.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The sleek facility, which has a $110 admission fee for nonmembers, offers a sauna, pool, body scrubs and hot-and-cold therapy — all staples of the Russian banya experience plus a smoothie bar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
She co-founded the vegan skincare company Hyphen with Bollywood star Kriti Sanon in 2023 and also runs mCaffeine which makes scrubs, washes and lotions and calls itself India's first caffeinated personal care brand.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Women in green scrubs and hairnets were lined up to greet her as her stretcher rolled out of the elevator.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
She was a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital and was already wearing her pale-blue scrubs.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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By then, graffiti had been scrubbed from the central monument that pays tribute to the French Republic, including its tradition of insurrection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Offline too, the Mbappe brand appeared to be scrubbed from stores.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Rivadeneira said she even scrubbed her personal social media accounts of photos of her young daughter after trolls began attacking loved ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Google maintains that any data it receives will be scrubbed of personally-identifiable information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
She moved slowly around the room in her stockinged feet, taking down the scrubbed pans from the wall, building up the fire, washing the grit from the collards.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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But in a Reuters video last month, co-founder Cornelia Weinzierl said that with teleoperation, the robots can do anything from changing bed sheets to scrubbing the toilet.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
“It just doesn’t make any sense,” the fan said in the video, showing footage of her scrubbing the star.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
But I’d say seven to ten minutes of my 15-minute reset is, almost always, spent sudsing and scrubbing.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
In another study, Cooper and his colleagues found that scrubbing dot-com names gave stocks a short-term upward jolt averaging 64%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
She learned from Muff to pour a bottle of Coca-Cola into the soak tub to help loosen the mud, but it still took extra scrubbing before she even put the clothes through Muff’s washer.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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