brush up
verb
brushed up; brushing up; brushes up
1
: to improve or polish as if by brushing
2
: to renew one's skill in
brush up your Spanish
: to refresh one's memory : renew one's skill
brush up on math
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That’s a good reminder for all of us to brush up on our phishing detection skills.
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Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
The Army has been brushing up against the Category 4 limit since the recruiting crisis began.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Her books occupy the borderlands of realism and fable, where the plausible brushes up against the impossible, and the laws of narrative logic are bent just enough to let in the surreal.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
But Kupiansk is once again brushing up against the front lines.
—Ellie Cook
john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
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Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
The Army has been brushing up against the Category 4 limit since the recruiting crisis began.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Her books occupy the borderlands of realism and fable, where the plausible brushes up against the impossible, and the laws of narrative logic are bent just enough to let in the surreal.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
But Kupiansk is once again brushing up against the front lines.
—Ellie Cook
john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Brush up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brush%20up. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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