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Farmers, after a night of picking, find their fields strewn with detritus: adult diapers, cigarette butts, snack bags, sawdust (essential for drying one’s fingers between bouts with slimy worms), and, in at least one instance, a condom.
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
The small pieces of compressed woody leftovers, like sawdust, are used in everything from home heating to grilling.
—Tom Brown, Wired News, 14 June 2025
Its life span is only a few weeks, but in that time one female can produce nearly a hundred offspring, peppering sorghum plants with larvae that look like sawdust and suck nutrients from the leaves, stunting the plants.
—Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Decayed objects gnaw, toys bleed sawdust, and the White Rabbit—stitched-up and glassy-eyed—wields a pair of scissors like a surgical instrument.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
The small pieces of compressed woody leftovers, like sawdust, are used in everything from home heating to grilling.
—Tom Brown, Wired News, 14 June 2025
Its life span is only a few weeks, but in that time one female can produce nearly a hundred offspring, peppering sorghum plants with larvae that look like sawdust and suck nutrients from the leaves, stunting the plants.
—Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Decayed objects gnaw, toys bleed sawdust, and the White Rabbit—stitched-up and glassy-eyed—wields a pair of scissors like a surgical instrument.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
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“Sawdust.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sawdust. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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sawdust
noun
saw·dust
ˈsȯd-(ˌ)əst 
: tiny particles (as of wood) made by a saw in cutting
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