scrubbed
Example Sentences
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No one was hurt, she scrubbed the thought from her head and became the upstanding moral citizen she is today.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
Decades of pollution regulations had scrubbed the valley’s air so much that those particles were vanishing—and the fog with them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Chrysler-parent Stellantis essentially scrubbed its showrooms of passenger cars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
The face of an angel on a restored church fresco in Rome that sparked outrage because of its likeness to Italy's prime minister, has been crudely scrubbed out by the artist who painted it.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
As he scrubbed the blackened cooking pot, he hurriedly told Shifa about Zheng over the sound of the sloshing water.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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