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[dish-rag] / ˈdɪʃˌræg /


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Lowe said he grabbed a dishrag and tried to wave the smoke away from the smoke detector — only to have Moose start nipping at the rag and at his finger “aggressively.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 18, 2025

But Aleksandr, practically blind to all of this with dishrag ski mask around his head, could only hear the commotion of the waterway.

From New York Times Oct. 4, 2022

What, you expected J Lo to turn up in a smock with her hair tied up in a dishrag?

From BBC Apr. 19, 2020

Bad fans, good fans, Jon Snow fans, Sansa fans, whatever outcome you were hoping for, you probably weren’t expecting this one, the happy ending equivalent of a sort-of-clean dishrag.

From Slate May 20, 2019

We used a special-type tablecloth for dairy meals because you could clean it with a simple dishrag as opposed to washing it.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride




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