scrub
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Ursula, the artist who lives there, finds it broken and has Kiki scrub her floors in exchange for repairing it.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
On Thursday, SpaceX plans another attempt at its 13th Starship rocket launch, a full week after it was forced to scrub the test.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The body scrub areas and dry saunas feature Japanese Hinoki wood also imported from Korea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“If I get even a speck of dust on me outside, I have to come home and scrub my hands until they’re raw just to feel clean,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
After hanging my day clothes in my cubby and brushing my teeth with our homemade mint scrub, I crawl into bed.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
She scrubs through video and photos and interviews a case worker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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
When I took Otto out for morning walks, I noticed nurses coming home in scrubs after overnight shifts at the nearby hospital—clearly headed straight for well-earned sleep.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2026
Zero-star recruits usually wind up as end-of-the-bench scrubs who spend less time on the field than the marching band.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
A woman in maroon scrubs peeks out into the lobby.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
Maas scrubbed her Instagram of all previous posts for the big reveal, and digital billboards in Los Angeles, Denver and New York City also broadcast the book news.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 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
Dialects have since been dubbed over in cinemas and scrubbed from radio and television programmes.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
As Lin scrubbed the floor on her knees, it picked up rubbish and folded clothes strewn across a sofa.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Maybeth scrubbed down the wooden table and Dicey polished it dry.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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
Embassy, which had been closed since 2019, workers have been scrubbing mold, rolling out fresh wall-to-wall carpeting and installing new air conditioning units.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
It’s a scrubbing of the past, an act of forgetting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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
She stops scrubbing and pokes her head out of the bathroom.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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