scrub
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She managed to escape by hiding in outback scrub for several hours before she was able to wave down two men driving a truck.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Elsewhere, major fires also destroyed hundreds of hectares of forest, vineyards and scrub land on the Croatian island of Hvar and at Tale in Albania, authorities said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Any account of the 14th Amendment that attempts to scrub away that history is untruthful.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
The scrub jay’s habitat is being removed, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Here and there scrub pines and bushes jutted from the granite surface.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Before running them through the dishwasher, he soaks and scrubs off the most stubborn jams and sauces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
In the remote Ocotillo washes, where the scrubs claw at people’s shins, he recently found what he believes to be the remains of a human finger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026
Various male doctors or nurses in green scrubs are seen in the video on Kildow's Instagram handle.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
When I took Otto out for morning walks, I noticed nurses coming home in scrubs after overnight shifts at the nearby hospital—clearly headed straight for well-earned sleep.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2026
Over her nurse’s scrubs, Mrs. Montgomery is wearing a sweatshirt with the incumbent county executive's name on it.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Dramatic footage of the incident has been scrubbed off the internet.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Over the past week Greenwater became a punchline for late-night monologues, and Antinone scrubbed his phone number from the internet after being inundated with angry voicemails accusing him of swimming in corrupt public cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Dialects have since been dubbed over in cinemas and scrubbed from radio and television programmes.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Communities soon removed statues and busts of him and scrubbed his name from streets, parks and schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
He scrubbed vigorously, sending up clouds of dust.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
The 22-year-old now runs his own business scrubbing every sheet metal curve and interior corner of a vehicle until there isn’t a smudge or crumb left.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
When we made it back home after being gone for two weeks, I had to put elbow grease into scrubbing the caked-on dog drool off the side of the car.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026
It’s a scrubbing of the past, an act of forgetting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
A common industrial approach, aqueous amine scrubbing, requires heating large amounts of liquid to temperatures above 100 °C to release the captured CO2 and reuse the solution.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2026
Georgie glanced at Nero sitting nearby, licking his paws and scrubbing his face.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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