dusty
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By combining detailed computer simulations with recent images from ESA's Hera spacecraft, the researchers concluded that one impact could account for both the moon's large southern depression and its unusually smooth, dusty surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Two hours' drive away, along dusty roads, some of the group's most devoted former fighters showed the BBC the insurgents' old secret cave network.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Guayaramerin, a town of 40,000 people with dusty streets of red earth that contrast sharply with the vivid green of the jungle, survives off trade with Brazil.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Poltergeist” was, notably, a summertime Amblin release that similarly riffed on classic creature scares — updating dusty, old ghost tropes with new ideas — much like Mitchell does with his dino-time-travel extravaganza.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
When I was five and we were living in Brooklyn, I took classes in a basement studio that had a wall of dusty mirrors.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
"It would explain why these more massive supergiants are missing because they tend to be dustier."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025
The other issue here is Verstappen was ahead at the apex, slightly, only because he had braked later than Norris, despite being on the dustier inside line where there would be less grip.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
As California’s largest lake has continued to evaporate, it’s become saltier and dustier, causing breathing problems for locals like Clark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
Hallar’s data show the south-central region of the state where the May storm originated is getting dustier by about 2 percent per year.
From Scientific American ● May 10, 2023
It was smaller than I had expected—as places reconstructed from borrowed memories inevitably are—but also duller and dustier.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Astronomers posit that the most massive aging stars also might be the dustiest.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025
Another Grann specialty is on full display — creating a cast of indelible characters from the dustiest of sources: 18th century ship’s logs, surgeons’ textbooks, court-martial proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
The bottom of my purse is the dustiest environment in the world, and I don’t love the main screen’s chances against my toddler if he ever got ahold of it.
From The Verge ● Aug. 17, 2022
"These sites are becoming dustier and dustier, and last year was by far the dustiest year of our study," Blakowski asserted in an interview with Salon.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2022
Jordan College was scoured from the dustiest box-room to the darkest cellar, and so were Gabriel and St. Michael’s, till the heads of all the colleges issued a joint protest asserting their ancient rights.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing dusty
Two-Faced Words: Contronyms
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -y
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