washed

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The group legal claim alleges that the nutrients from the manure frequently washed off the soil into waterways leading to high levels of phosphorus, nitrogen and bacteria entering the rivers.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

If hands are not properly washed, these devices can blow microbes onto your skin, other people, and surrounding surfaces.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

After the cameras stopped rolling and the brown “sewage” was washed off, “we all started crying and holding each other as we said goodbye,” Kaczmarek recalled.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Two adult gray whales washed up dead in the nearby Ocean Shores area earlier in April, Cascadia Research Collective said.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

“Nat, this is Letitia. Letitia, Nat. Nat’s the one I was just telling you about who washed up all the way from Hialeah.”

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz