dusty
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Her memories of favorite foods has remained intact, like images preserved in a dusty family album.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Using that technique, astronomers looked for planets hidden inside the dusty disks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
When this dry, dusty layer of air is directed across the Atlantic, it prevents storms from growing.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Loui Ridi keeps watch from his balcony on a pair of dusty camper vans parked a stone’s throw from his yard, bracing for the next attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Suddenly, I can imagine this space as so much more than just a dusty storage area.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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The other issue here is Verstappen was ahead at the apex, slightly, only because he had braked later than Norris, despite being on the dustier inside line where there would be less grip.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
As California’s largest lake has continued to evaporate, it’s become saltier and dustier, causing breathing problems for locals like Clark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
If that conclusion is confirmed, it suggests the early universe was much dustier than previously thought.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
The A clump is bluer, mostly free of dust and bursting with baby stars, whereas B is redder, dustier and comparatively lacking in new stars.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2023
It was smaller than I had expected—as places reconstructed from borrowed memories inevitably are—but also duller and dustier.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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"It's the reddest, dustiest red supergiant that we've seen explode as a supernova," Suresh said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025
Another Grann specialty is on full display — creating a cast of indelible characters from the dustiest of sources: 18th century ship’s logs, surgeons’ textbooks, court-martial proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
The bottom of my purse is the dustiest environment in the world, and I don’t love the main screen’s chances against my toddler if he ever got ahold of it.
From The Verge ● Aug. 17, 2022
As the public's interest in air quality grows, as evidenced by Purple Air's network of over 10,000 air quality monitoring devices, researchers are eager to identify the dustiest sources to inform policymakers.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2022
Grandpa loved the dustiest stores best because they were the ones that would have uncracked rolls of coins in the backs of their safes.
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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Two-Faced Words: Contronyms
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