broom
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Miller, a 41-year-old design technician for a steel company in Linn, Mo., also made a protective cap for the sharp end of his garage push broom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
When the AI reported “a person is jumping from the roof of a house,” it was Soderstrom again, this time standing up quickly in the lanai and grabbing a hose or broom, she recalled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Frances Perkins, Franklin Roosevelt’s Labor secretary, recalled having to clean up the agency — not just morally and ethically, but with broom and bucket, when she took over from William Nuckles Doak, Herbert Hoover’s appointee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Johnson said the puppies "may have started fighting" and jurors had already been told Martin used a broom to try to break them up.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
I watched him for a moment, listening to the livid swiff, swiff, swiff of the broom.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
A few distant screeches of brooms on cobblestone, that’s all.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
"Afterwards, the community really rallied around, there were people turning up with brooms, brushes to help with the clean-up," he said of the unrest in August.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
Tens of thousands of workers with brooms and shovels have been deployed, assisted by snow plows in the hardest-hit regions.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
To Padilla, her block of Boyle Heights is just like Tijuana with the tortillerias and panaderias and mom-and-pop shopkeepers street-vending brooms, cowboy boots and cactus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
I strap the bag with the whisk brooms and the batteries onto the back of Uncle Drum’s old bike.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
