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Recent Examples of sandpaper
But that was back when the team drafted well enough and the greatest quarterback of all time was able to sandpaper over their misses.
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Chad Graff,
The Athletic,
11 Mar. 2025
Other needs include upgrading the defense corps, acquiring a veteran goalie to potentially pair with Yaroslav Askarov, bringing in another scoring winger, and adding some size and sandpaper to help the Sharks become a more difficult team to play against, which has been Grier’s goal since day one.
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Curtis Pashelka,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
Similar to sandpaper, steel wool has various grades to choose from—ranging from super fine to extra coarse.
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Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Jan. 2025
English speakers floundered when talking about touch (in response to sandpaper, felt, rubber, etc.), but speakers of certain other languages—such as Dogul Dom, in Mali, and Siwu, in Ghana—tended to agree in their descriptions.
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Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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Chad Graff,
The Athletic,
11 Mar. 2025
Other needs include upgrading the defense corps, acquiring a veteran goalie to potentially pair with Yaroslav Askarov, bringing in another scoring winger, and adding some size and sandpaper to help the Sharks become a more difficult team to play against, which has been Grier’s goal since day one.
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Curtis Pashelka,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
Similar to sandpaper, steel wool has various grades to choose from—ranging from super fine to extra coarse.
—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Jan. 2025
English speakers floundered when talking about touch (in response to sandpaper, felt, rubber, etc.), but speakers of certain other languages—such as Dogul Dom, in Mali, and Siwu, in Ghana—tended to agree in their descriptions.
—
Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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The lawsuit filed by the families names Wilburn, Riverside County, and the cities of Beaumont and Calimesa as defendants, alleging the intersection was dangerously designed and maintained, with inadequate sight lines caused by roadway geometry, vegetation and utility equipment.
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No charges have been filed yet.
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Zillow says that a pale pink bathroom could lose you up to $6,013, while a pale pink kitchen shaves an extra $4,201 off potential buyers' offers.
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The Supreme Court ruled that a Louisiana prisoner whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved off by prison guards cannot sue them under a federal law designed to protect the religious rights of prisoners.
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Most of the site has been cleaned and scraped, while the work at a nearby synagogue that suffered severe damage is just beginning.
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Her older brother, 9-year-old Charlie, climbs across the nearby jungle gym at a Prairie Village playground as her younger brother, 3-year-old Will, scrapes a stick through the mulch.
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But the quiet-part-out-loud here is that the Duffer Brothers ditching Netflix for a four-year deal at Paramount seems to have rubbed high-ranking Netflix executives the wrong way, the first source told THR.
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According to police, Foulke, Acrey and Millevoix encountered a man and woman waiting for a ride-share outside when one of the three rubbed their knuckles across a man's head.
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Kelsey passes around a bowl of clam shells with questions written on them as Liz gnaws on a corn on the cob.
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Mice can and will gnaw through most softer materials.
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Trump previously said the plan was to sandblast, caulk and resurface the pool basin.
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Two types of DMRs were used in this experiment: A convex pattern made of glass beads with diameters ranging from 38 to 53 micrometers (μm) and a concave pattern applied by sandblasting.
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And just like that, from scuffed to spotless.
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Debutant Crysencio Summerville’s cross from the right begged to be converted, only for Malen to stumble and scuff wide.
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Instead of scouring for seashells like you might in Florida, hunt for the famous Petoskey stones—they're pieces of prehistoric coral reef and also Michigan's state stone.
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The team scoured documents buried in Japanese and US military archives before conducting sonar surveys and technical dives.
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“Sandpaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandpaper. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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