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- noun Attributive form of
steel wool
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Examples
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The steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery were already in his pockets.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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Dear Heloise: To keep steel-wool pads longer, when in use put them in aluminum foil.
Hints From Heloise washingtonpost.com 2010
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Then he removed the steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery from his pockets.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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Then he removed the steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery from his pockets.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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The steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery were already in his pockets.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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A soft-spoken man in his late fifties, with a full head of steel-wool hair and a wardrobe of dark business suits, Tuyakbay impressed me as level-headed and resolute when we met for lunch at the Tabard Inn, in Washington, D.C. "The structure of power," he told me, "is totally corrupt."
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A soft-spoken man in his late fifties, with a full head of steel-wool hair and a wardrobe of dark business suits, Tuyakbay impressed me as level-headed and resolute when we met for lunch at the Tabard Inn, in Washington, D.C. "The structure of power," he told me, "is totally corrupt."
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A soft-spoken man in his late fifties, with a full head of steel-wool hair and a wardrobe of dark business suits, Tuyakbay impressed me as level-headed and resolute when we met for lunch at the Tabard Inn, in Washington, D.C. "The structure of power," he told me, "is totally corrupt."
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The steel-wool darkness and drifting light behind threw Harry into poor-postured silhouette against the open doorway.
The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007
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So I sometimes ignore instructions not to use soaped steel-wool or metal scouring pads or other, stronger cleaning methods on my stainless-steel cookware.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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