do the dishes
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She hands Salvador Arciga a headmount and tells him to go home and do the dishes and clean his kitchen.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
The humanoid bot can do the dishes, clean and fold laundry, but for now it also requires a human puppet master.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Meredith Olan, director of the Banner House history museum, has been hauling water from the creek and boiling it just to do the dishes.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024
He told Slate that Cannon’s reasoning reads as “kind of saying that she didn’t do the dishes and therefore the dishes are dirty.”
From Slate • May 15, 2024
Sure, sometimes they argued over how much time Aimee’s mother was working, who didn’t do the dishes, who left the milk out all night.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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