dust off
verb
dusted off; dusting off; dusts off
: to bring out or back to use again
dusted off his golf clubs when he retired
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Community giving shouldn’t be a special effort that’s dusted off once a year and packed away when the season’s over.
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Ray Titus, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The ghouls, ghosts and monsters are dusting off their Halloween best and emerging for another spooky season around Indianapolis.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2024
Phoenix residents may have to put off ordering hot coffees, donning sweatshirts and dusting off other fall staples a bit longer.
—Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024
Over the past few years, however, more physicists have been dusting off von Neumann’s ideas.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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Ray Titus, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The ghouls, ghosts and monsters are dusting off their Halloween best and emerging for another spooky season around Indianapolis.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2024
Phoenix residents may have to put off ordering hot coffees, donning sweatshirts and dusting off other fall staples a bit longer.
—Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024
Over the past few years, however, more physicists have been dusting off von Neumann’s ideas.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Dust off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dust%20off. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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