scrub
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“This is Florida’s oldest fake news,” said Kris Cole, a retired high-school teacher who helped his students in Seminole County promote the scrub jay for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
“I don’t want to say anything about the scrub jay—I’m sure it tastes delicious with barbecue sauce,” she said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
Others have been listed for sale or have cut back on labor, renovating and adding machinery to soap and scrub as well as self-serve vacuum stations.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026
After the scrub, I realize I left my phone at home and can’t call Clayton with the improv’s address.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
Then Mrs. Popper had to scrub and polish and straighten the whole place, for she was much too good a housekeeper to leave everything at sixes and sevens while the Poppers were away.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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