dust

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Trump has said the US will now work "with Iran" to "dig up and remove all of the deeply buried… Nuclear Dust".

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Dust storms and spinning dust devils sweep across the surface, continually reshaping the landscape and driving processes that scientists are only beginning to fully understand.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

He attended test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, the site of many daring Armstrong flights and space shuttle landings, then served with the Navy’s Dust Devil test pilot squadron in China Lake, Calif.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” dramatized the suffering and exploitation of farmers migrating to California from the drought-ridden Dust Bowl of Oklahoma.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

The Dust fall shone like a great pillar of faint light as it descended smoothly and never-endingly into the gulf.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman