as in bombs
to defeat by a large margin
the inexperienced sprinter somehow dusted the field of veterans
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Recent Examples of dusts
Winter is also a wonderful surprise, when soft snow blankets valley trails and dusts the mountaintops.
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Lisa Kadane, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
Snow paints the eaves over us and dusts the clapboard under the window.
—Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Trails remain accessible, wildlife is still active and early snow dusts the surrounding Chugach Mountains.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Lisa Kadane, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
Snow paints the eaves over us and dusts the clapboard under the window.
—Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Trails remain accessible, wildlife is still active and early snow dusts the surrounding Chugach Mountains.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dusts
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Ukraine bombs Russian energy infrastructure to defend civilians and destroy the Kremlin war machine.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Oct. 2025
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Remind them their worth is non-negotiable When your child fails — gets cut from the team, bombs a test — remind them their value isn't up for debate.—
Jennifer Breheny Wallace,
CNBC,
21 Aug. 2025
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The wind whips across the peak, marked as per usual around here with a pile of stones and colorful prayer flags tied to the top like sails on the mast of a ship.—
Joe Baur,
Outside,
31 Oct. 2025
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In the video, Campos whips her long hair in disbelief.—
Christina Noriega,
Refinery29,
13 Oct. 2025
Verb
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There is no dignity, and no justice, in a system that buries an elderly woman alive in silence.—
Kim Aris,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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This buries the block into the sand.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Quick and direct, this young adult novel in verse about a closeted Black boy who overcomes fear and shame through the power of poetry reads almost like a journal entry.—
Amber McBride,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Inflatable module overcomes launch constraints Orbital platforms are typically constrained by limitations related to the launch vehicle.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
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Principal photography is underway in Dallas, Texas, on the film which follows the Kassis family, whose healthy young son, Jade, is suddenly stricken with HLH — a rare and deadly blood disorder that throws them into a battle for his life.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
10 Nov. 2025
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The 5-foot-11, 154-pound Imai throws a mix of six pitches, but is more than simply a deception specialist.—
Jon Vankin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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The sequencer pastes together the strings and the quality scores, along with some other metadata, read by read, to form what is called a FASTQ file.—
Dmitri Pavlichin,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Aug. 2018
Verb
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Bovino appears to be arguing with a man standing near Muñoz who says something that visibly upsets the chief.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Stone upsets Cline in District 5 District 5 incumbent Lisa Cline lost her south Charlotte district in a contest with challenger Cynthia Stone.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Nov. 2025
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Dillane, clothed in an Adidas track suit, smokes a cigarette.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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If tequila is your best friend, mezcal is your best friend’s dangerous cousin, the one who rides a motorcycle and smokes cigarettes.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Dusts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dusts. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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