cotton
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Farmworkers – who harvested cotton, vegetables and fruits — organized and marched for roughly 400 miles from the Valley to Austin to demand fair wages and better working conditions.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Researchers first collected plaque samples using cotton swabs on one side of each participant's mouth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Usually seen in stone screens, the motif is just as crisply cut here in cotton rag, the voids in its surface allowing us to peek at the text inside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
He found that many of the chemical residues in cotton and cotton-rich garments can wash out during laundering, but also that chemicals can migrate more readily from cotton than polyester into sweat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
I have cotton balls in my nostrils, an ice pack on my eye, and Neosporin on the cut on my nose.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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