dirt
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The 85-year-old US entrepreneur and personality has deleted a photo of herself wearing torn clothes and dirt on her face, holding a sign saying: "I am hungry help me!!"
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Williamson’s game-winner bounced off the dirt near home plate, kicking up a cloud of white chalk as it bounded high over Jake Bauers’ head and into right field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
EDINBURG, Texas — Clad in pressed jeans and cowboy hats, dozens of riders on horseback and drivers in pickups kicked up dust along a dirt road in Edinburg, near the southern tip of Texas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
“I’m not saying the AI revolution isn’t real, but why not take some chips off the table and put on the unnoticed parts of the market small-cap value, emerging-markets value are trading dirt cheap.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
When I got the dirt out of my eyes, they had disappeared and I looked up to see a girl.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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