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scrub

[skruhb] / skrʌb /




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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

McElwee refuses to scrub the truth from his personal histories, choosing instead to confront his own regrets head-on.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

The body scrub areas and dry saunas feature Japanese Hinoki wood also imported from Korea.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Now the company has also had to scrub a Falcon-9 launch that was planned for Monday morning.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

She has music playing from her phone, and for the next thirty minutes we scrub, dust, and sweep.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

Their TikTok and Instagram posts are full of frozen drinks on the beach, group hangs with other travel nurses and fashion shots in colorful new scrubs.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 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 scrubs through video and photos and interviews a case worker.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2026

Then, beyond Chas’s shoulder, at the edge of the dance floor, I caught a glimpse of green surgical scrubs and soft black hair draping over the glint of a stethoscope.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

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

District Attorney Nathan Hochman launched an investigation using law-enforcement databases with records of virtually everyone the county had prosecuted since the 1960s, including juveniles whose files had been scrubbed from the probation department.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

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

But in this case authorities cited the age of the boys as they urged people to withhold their comments and scrubbed social media posts about the incident.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

But they have been permitted to shower with real soap, and so they look scrubbed.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

“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

After a hundred years of scrubbing by a dozen different families, this house would probably still smell bitter.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker




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