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- noun Plural form of
dust . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dust .
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Examples
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It detects many types of particulate including solid particulates such as dusts, powders, granulars and pellets.
ThomasNet News - Today's New Product News ThomasNet News 2010
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Within 1 hour since their arrival, almost every historical building on Earth were wiped out from the surface of the planet, structures and houses were converted into fine pieces of dusts, countless lives were annihilated.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Spurred by Marvel. com's streaming of episodes from Toei Company's 1978 Spider-Man TV series, Matt Alt dusts off his translation of the show's origins -- courtesy of liner notes that accompanied a Soul of Chogokin toy, naturally:
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When a crash totals the Batmobile and breaks Batman's leg, he picks himself up, dusts himself off, and builds something much, much cooler.
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No nonsense as she dusts off the curtains in the shadows of a dewy dawn.
Triptych: Glass, Miasma, Pernicious Robert Vaughan 2011
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Shuna Lydon of Peels Restaurant and Bakery in New York, who dusts yeasted donuts in ground black sesame sugar for her restaurant's brunch menu, loves how the seeds offer both familiarity and surprise: Black sesame tastes like white, but it has a smoky, deeper, darker character.
Open (Black) Sesame! 2011
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Lacking conventional hero talents, he tries to be useful: he makes sandwiches for the Prime Combatants; he mops their marble floors and dusts their overflowing bookshelves.
Filth and Splendor: A Love Story Marshall Moore 2011
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Where the latter loves to play taste maker, Boyer simply digs up rough gems, dusts them off with some modest editorial and sort of says "you might like this."
Video Game Hipsters SVGL 2009
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Lacking conventional hero talents, he tries to be useful: he makes sandwiches for the Prime Combatants; he mops their marble floors and dusts their overflowing bookshelves.
Filth and Splendor: A Love Story Marshall Moore 2011
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It dusts the litter, moves it around a bit, knocks over a yellow ‘wet floor’ sign.
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