duster
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In Kern County: Mistaken for a government agent by foreign spies, Roger Thornhill, played by Cary Grant, is chased across a barren field in Indiana by a crop duster in “North by Northwest.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Find a duster extender or ladder to make sure you can reach the ceiling and the tops of cabinets and refrigerators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
Don’t use a feather duster or anything similar that stirs up dust, Filippelli said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Hankey even hired a crop duster to fly over half of his 30 acres to test whether the plane would move more pollen around in the air and improve fertilization.
From Reuters ● Dec. 21, 2022
Mrs. O’Leary looked pretty tired as she limped over to a duster of boulders.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
Procter & Gamble reported volume declined 2% in the latest quarter in its home and fabric-care division, which includes brands like Tide detergent, Dawn dish liquid and Swiffer dusters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Every time a banana tree sprouts a leaf, it's newly vulnerable to fungal infection, so farmers spray fungicide from crop dusters and enclose growing fruits in plastic bags loaded with insecticide to deter bugs.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023
“We want to be recognized like everyone else. We need health and safety, too,” Sanchez said while marching alongside hundreds of workers waving brooms and dusters outside the Capitol in Sacramento in late August.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
She was "made invisible" under dusters and mops.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2023
Yet some 7,000,000 pounds of parathion are now applied to fields and orchards of the United States — by hand sprayers, motorized blowers and dusters, and by airplane.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
