- present participle of rub.
rubbing
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Reddington, looking upset, could be seen consoling his client, holding her in a side hug and rubbing her back as journalists left court.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The feeling of responsibility is probably rubbing up against your financial and personal boundaries.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
In the kitchen, Gruel recommends rubbing it with avocado oil, salt and fresh herbs.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
So is rubbing animal fat on your face worth it?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The spiders were communicating once more, slowly rubbing their great ribbed back legs together like poisonous crickets.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Similarly, a study published in May in the journal Communications Biology found that elephants form complex "sentences" through their various rumbles, ear flags, trunk rubbings and other actions.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2024
Macie and his resident partner, Sophie Lynn Morris, also made Måla modeling dough casts of the fissures found on display furniture and crayon rubbings off the splintering cement floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
In 2016 graphic designer Marina Willer created a booklet of neon rubbings; manhole colouring books are available for people seeking mindfulness; and a Shoreditch company offers framed prints of rubbings for £80.
From BBC ● May 14, 2021
Johns later said that his paintings of American flags and targets, which he started making in 1954, represented “things the mind already knows,” which Dienes’s rubbings did as well, and maybe first.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2021
She pulled out a brood frame, a canvas of whirling blacks and grays, with rubbings of silver.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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Visual Arts - Introductory
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