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Others were small, like a fragment of elk spine, picked clean by an unknown scavenger, or clusters of spectacular flowers, including columbine, paintbrush, and larkspur.
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Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
The paint-and-create experience ($64.99) allows kids to hold a canvas and pick out colors while bottlenose dolphins hold the paintbrush and create their masterpiece.
—Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 25 May 2025
When the researchers, who were funded by the N.I.H., used a wet paintbrush to stroke the rat pups — simulating the way a mother rat licks her offspring — these growth markers returned to normal.
—Alan Burdick, New York Times, 16 May 2025
That led him to believe Oliva had killed JonBenét, seeing as the murder weapon in the cold case had been a garrote, made of a rope attached by a knot to a broken paintbrush handle.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
The paint-and-create experience ($64.99) allows kids to hold a canvas and pick out colors while bottlenose dolphins hold the paintbrush and create their masterpiece.
—Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 25 May 2025
When the researchers, who were funded by the N.I.H., used a wet paintbrush to stroke the rat pups — simulating the way a mother rat licks her offspring — these growth markers returned to normal.
—Alan Burdick, New York Times, 16 May 2025
That led him to believe Oliva had killed JonBenét, seeing as the murder weapon in the cold case had been a garrote, made of a rope attached by a knot to a broken paintbrush handle.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Paintbrush.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paintbrush. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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paintbrush
noun
paint·brush
ˈpānt-ˌbrəsh 
1
: a brush for applying paint
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