scrub

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

They are decidedly un-classic: Billie’s desperation to scrub her embarrassing social-media history before a job interview, for instance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Getting to the ranch requires a journey up winding hills, past signs that read “Please Be Kind,” on roads flanked by cacti, chaparral and coastal sage scrub.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

First attempts to scrub off the paint on the court were not completely successful, so contractors have been on site using "laser technology".

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Though we have little soap, she understands, and we give it a good scrub and let it dry in the courtyard.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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

Before running them through the dishwasher, he soaks and scrubs off the most stubborn jams and sauces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

In the remote Ocotillo washes, where the scrubs claw at people’s shins, he recently found what he believes to be the remains of a human finger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026

Various male doctors or nurses in green scrubs are seen in the video on Kildow's Instagram handle.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

She scrubs oatmeal off a pillow, and I dust her air conditioner.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

All schools will open as normal — although operations will be tightly monitored and affected campuses are being scrubbed clean inside and out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

SpaceX on Thursday scrubbed what was to be its first Starship flight since the company went public, abruptly calling it off just as the booster began to ignite.

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

The sound is not just big and bold, but scrubbed clean by AI with the goal of maddening perfection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Dramatic footage of the incident has been scrubbed off the internet.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

The floor was smoothed all over, and scrubbed clean and white, and the big bed under the window was soft with feathers.

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

“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

Mr. and Mrs. Chandler have done their own silent scrubbing of the texts and acknowledge “omitting unneeded repetitions and Soviet clichés.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

When we made it back home after being gone for two weeks, I had to put elbow grease into scrubbing the caked-on dog drool off the side of the car.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026

A common industrial approach, aqueous amine scrubbing, requires heating large amounts of liquid to temperatures above 100 °C to release the captured CO2 and reuse the solution.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2026

Thinking how pretty her hands were, despite they were red from scrubbing floors, I watched her fingers move dreamy up and down the keyboard.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns