Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swabbed
Verb
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Nothing better than putting down the top and driving beautiful roads just after the rain stops and the air is powerfully charged by the nearby ocean, scrubbed clean.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025 -
That ended last month, the latest senior figure scrubbed from a poster that is unrecognisable from just 18 months ago.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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At this stage, the anchovies can be packaged with the salt they were cured in, or they can be rinsed, deboned, filleted, packed into tins or jars, and covered in oil.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 Sep. 2025
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The operator rinsed the gloved hand in the sink and came back to the main cook line to prep food.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The two asked around but brushed off the messages as a prank.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
10 Sep. 2025
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According to her, the girlfriend brushed off the refusal and signaled her annoyance.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Once cleaned, the canal is filled with a rubber-like material and sealed to prevent reinfection.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Brass door handles can be cleaned with soap and water as mentioned above.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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After the shooting, the school was placed in a lockdown and officials swept the campus.—
Alex Stone,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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That’s more exciting to me than last year, when James swept the fiction categories, with even the Pulitzer board overriding their fiction judges to award the big prize to Percival Everett’s novel.—
Maris Kreizman,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Health spoke to skin and food experts and combed through the research to see what science actually says about caffeine’s impact on aging, both inside and out.—
Laura Schober,
Health,
10 Sep. 2025
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Teams of searchers combed the shoreline on foot and in inflatable boats.—
Todd Symons,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Over the weekend, as online sleuths scoured photos of Trump for evidence of any frailty, the political scientist Ian Bremmer pointed out that obsessive scrutiny of a leader’s health is a hallmark of authoritarian countries.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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Thankfully, Murphy had help, as her two friends scoured the area by her side (iPhone flashlights in hand).—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Both the real Roan and the dress version wore a bright aqua blue shadow brushed all the way up the lid, with a hint of amethyst purple dusted underneath her '30s-style skinny brows.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
25 Aug. 2025
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Turn dough out onto a work surface dusted with powdered sugar.—
Ann Taylor Pittman,
Southern Living,
24 Aug. 2025
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“Swabbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swabbed. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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