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It’s a terrible mess in Ann Arbor, impossible for even college football to brush away.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 13, 2025

But when the start-up company OpenAI began making public its “generative” AI tools — including the popular ChatGPT chatbot — it led competitors to brush away their previous, relatively cautious approaches to the tech.

From Washington Post Feb. 16, 2023

In photographs, she is seen holding a broom that she would now use to brush away insects from her path to avoid accidentally stepping on them.

From BBC Jan. 23, 2023

That means cutting brush away with chainsaws and clearing rough terrain with shovels and hoes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 26, 2020

Three renowned scientists promptly traveled to New Mexico and watched Figgins’s team brush away the dirt from the point and extract it from the gully.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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