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dust

[duhst] / dʌst /


VERB
sprinkle tiny particles
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AI is the latest catalyst to go around traditional businesses and leave them in the dust.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hogan said terminating the power purchase agreements would leave investors and taxpayers in the dust, benefiting the utility company and the plant owners.

From Los Angeles Times

“I don’t know what magic dust they sprinkled across the group, but since then, things have gone like clockwork,” Hunter said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The galaxy contains large amounts of dust that block visible light, preventing telescopes like Keck from seeing deep into its interior.

From Science Daily

Asteroids, comets, and larger bodies crash into one another, sometimes sticking together and slowly transforming clouds of dust and ice into planets and moons.

From Science Daily