Definitions
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- noun The act of removing
dust from something. - noun military A medical
helicopter .
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Examples
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They only dust-off the mothballs on Reagan when they need him.
Think Progress » The Right Scrambles To Demean Obama’s Successful Nuclear Summit 2010
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A 3D dust-off for Disney's tale of a lion's noble struggle to reinstate the partriarchal law of the jungle.
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I heard the blades of the dust-off coming in over the canopy, the downdraft flattening the elephant grass, the twirling smoke of marker grenades sucking away into the sky.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I heard the blades of the dust-off coming in over the canopy, the downdraft flattening the elephant grass, the twirling smoke of marker grenades sucking away into the sky.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I heard the blades of the dust-off coming in over the canopy, the downdraft flattening the elephant grass, the twirling smoke of marker grenades sucking away into the sky.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I heard the blades of the dust-off coming in over the canopy, the downdraft flattening the elephant grass, the twirling smoke of marker grenades sucking away into the sky.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The second thing that crossed my mind when I read about this innovation was to consider the many legal angles that this development unleashes the first thought was that perhaps it was time to dust-off the spandex suit and don the cape once more, but I digress.
Archive 2009-04-01 Andres Guadamuz 2009
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GUPTA: As for today's mission, Dabny and his dust-off crew cheated the clock again.
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GUPTA: But with the dust-off teams, the challenge is not just getting to the patients, but about getting out of there safely.
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The second thing that crossed my mind when I read about this innovation was to consider the many legal angles that this development unleashes the first thought was that perhaps it was time to dust-off the spandex suit and don the cape once more, but I digress.
User-Generated Gaming Andres Guadamuz 2009
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