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rub in
verb as in emphasize
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verb as in italicize
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“The ‘rub in’ method is basically with your hands so that you can actually feel the butter going into the flour.
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Sports costs became a major rub in the recent dispute.
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The dance begins when Tribus pretends to spit on the floor and rub in the spit with his foot.
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And here's the rub: in debates like this, the convention is the motion itself, the SNP's position, will be voted on, as will the government's position.
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Did she really need to rub in her first-place reign?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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