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sandpaper

verb as in buff

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Certainly the high jinks have caught the attention of those in Australia, who have put the sandpaper down long enough to have their say on England's morals.

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His lowest false shot percentage in any of his eight Test centuries in England was 9% - a difference of far more than a strip of sandpaper or two.

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“Hard Truths” is sublime and soft in the way that a rough surface is smoothed to the touch by sandpaper.

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The team used 31 industrial sandpapers with surfaces of varying roughness, ranging from 1 to 100 microns thick, as experimental targets.

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Start with coarse sandpaper — maybe 80 grit — and work up to progressively finer grades, ending with 400 grit.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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