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
Light snow dusts the canyon’s upper rims, crowds thin, the air turns crisp, and one of the most magical Christmas experiences in the country appears.
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Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 13 Dec. 2025
Winter is also a wonderful surprise, when soft snow blankets valley trails and dusts the mountaintops.
—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
Each winter, once the autumn leaves blow away and the first snow dusts the landscape, people travel from all across the Northeast (and the country) to soak up the area’s wintry charms and book a stay at one of their many ski resorts.
—Abigail Wise, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2024
Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 13 Dec. 2025
Winter is also a wonderful surprise, when soft snow blankets valley trails and dusts the mountaintops.
—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
Each winter, once the autumn leaves blow away and the first snow dusts the landscape, people travel from all across the Northeast (and the country) to soak up the area’s wintry charms and book a stay at one of their many ski resorts.
—Abigail Wise, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dusts
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Page Six gets a Hollywood edition Papps declined last week to reveal what stories his reporters were chasing and what bombs the political columnists will throw in its first editions.—
Christopher Weber,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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If Venezuela and its region instead spiral into chaos and suffering, Trump will merely look like a bully, a president who cowers when facing the mighty — in Moscow or Beijing, say — but bombs those who can’t return fire, whether in Nigeria, Yemen or Venezuela.—
Andreas Kluth,
Boston Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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When a dog repeatedly wags and whips its tail against hard surfaces, the tip can split open, bruise or break.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
21 Jan. 2026
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Benbrook whips Diamond Hill-Jarvis Benbrook stayed on pace for a playoff berth in District 8-4A as the Lady Bobcats thumped Fort Worth Diamond Hill-Jarvis 55-7.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Jan. 2026
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But Tan’s comment buries the lede.—
Peter Cohan,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The painter spends hours drawing sketches of the corpse, then chops up her body, arranges the pieces in a suitcase and buries it with the help of an old man sitting under a cypress tree.—
Amir Ahmadi Arian,
The Dial,
15 Jan. 2026
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In contrast, the ABF crystal, designed and grown by Chinese scientists over more than a decade, overcomes many of these obstacles.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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After a sluggish start, Texas overcomes a 14-point deficit to tie the game before OU's Xzayvier Brown hits a 3-pointer to give his team the halftime lead.—
Thomas Jones,
Austin American Statesman,
31 Jan. 2026
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Drawing from much more than the caustic hardcore the group have made their name on, Man Bites Dog throws jock jams, late-aughts electro-pop, and industrial into a huge Margaritaville-sized blender.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
13 Feb. 2026
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But Europa's environment throws a wrench in the works.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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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
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Hayley’s very upset by it, and that upsets Mickey, and that’s probably one of the biggest driving motivations for him, not just to save his own life, but to save his daughter and his family from the ramifications of this.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
7 Feb. 2026
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Or, imagine that Uruguay upsets Spain in Group H.—
Henry Bushnell,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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The Cure smokes everything here, but the soulful Bon Iver dad-rock album is the sound that fits this category’s current concept of its genre.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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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,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Dusts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dusts. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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