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hairbrush

[hair-bruhsh] / ˈhɛərˌbrʌʃ /


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The family prayed as McCormick’s great-grandson built a small plywood coffin that was filled with gifts and necessities for the next world, such as her granddaughter’s artwork and a hairbrush.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

DNA from Bryan's late mother's hairbrush was later found to be a familial match to traces on the victim's vest and clump of hair.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023

She makes videos for a TikTok audience of 78,000 followers about the things she buys, which includes dupes for Ugg slippers, the Dyson AirWrap thermal hairbrush and Skims, Kim Kardashian’s slinky shapewear brand.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023

She wanted to retrieve her medicine, and if memory serves all these years later, also a hairbrush and a photograph from her apartment.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

I get one of the bags we used to move from Mickiewicza, which is really an old potato sack, and stuff a blanket inside it, along with my hairbrush and Helena’s doll.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

"Back in the day, we'd have war zones over hairbrushes," says Raye.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

As whales were hunted for their oil, people fashioned baleen into products such as hairbrushes and corsets.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2021

Inside was a gray-checked suit, two hairbrushes, various paperwork and an identity photo showing his pensive face.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2021

Jackson Simmonds from the Julien Farel Restore Salon & Spa was also there, with a curling iron, hair dryer and boar bristle hairbrushes in his Longchamp tote.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2015

It’s not hard to imagine the relationship Helen thinks we ought to have: two eighteen-year-old girls living in Washington, borrowing cardigans and hairbrushes, drinking sodas at the end of a shift.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse




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