washed

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"Help me go home," viewers hear Odysseus plead, after having first found the King of Ithaca washed up on a far away sea shore.

From BBC • May 5, 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

Kerstin Rudd said the delay meant that if there had been any evidence of what happened that night it had been "washed away with the rain or whatever".

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Sometimes seaweed washed up on the Black Rocks.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr