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dirt

noun as in grime, impurity

noun as in obscenity; immorality

noun as in soil

Strongest matches

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noun as in gossip

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“I always thought I would farm till they threw dirt on top of me,” Buchholz said.

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They’re dirt and sand roads, but there’s intersections, there’s right of way.

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Robert Smithson had bulldozed dirt and rocks to build a spiral jetty coiling out into Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

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I could see the familiar dirt tracks, and the houses drowning in lush vegetation.

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It appeared that the helicopter augered into the dirt embankment on the side of the highway, tearing up weeds with its tail rotor before skidding across five freeway lanes.

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