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"(transitive) To remove dust from."
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"sense": "to remove dust from something",
"word": "dépoussiérer"
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"sense": "to remove dust from something",
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"sense": "to remove dust from something",
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"sense": "to remove dust from something",
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"text": "\"If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern,\" Remsberg writes, \"not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case.\"",
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"text": "I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired."
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"(transitive, figurative) To use something after a long time without it."
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"text": "Red Sox by the Numbers\nA “dice girl in a roadside tavern,” she said she shot McNaughton because “he tried to dust me off.”"
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"To remove dust from."
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"(transitive, figurative) To use something after a long time without it."
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"sense": "to remove dust from something",
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"sense": "to remove dust from something",
"word": "abstauben"
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"sense": "to remove dust from something",
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"sense": "to remove dust from something",
"word": "damma av"
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"sense": "to use something after a long time without it",
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"sense": "to use something after a long time without it",
"word": "riesumare"
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"sense": "to use something after a long time without it",
"word": "desempolvar"
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