scrub
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All the denizens of Thoreau’s Cape Cod, from its scraggly scrub pine trees to its people, exemplify the humility that goes hand-in-hand with danger.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The site is said to be mostly covered in trees and scrub and has a public right of way running from Palgrave to Diss in Norfolk, up the western side.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
I sometimes use the transcription platform Rev, which offers an A.I. transcript you can scrub through along with the audio.
From Slate • May 24, 2026
Although they excluded drugs-for-votes charges, prosecutors didn’t scrub the Dec. 12, 2024, indictment of how they believed the operation worked.
From Salon • May 6, 2026
I don’t refer merely to the glaring fact that the minister eventually acquires houses and Cadillacs while the faithful continue to scrub floors and drop their dimes and quarters and dollars into the plate.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing scrub
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