How to Use the rub in a Sentence
the rub
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But here’s the rub: What feels right changes from day to day, run to run.
—Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2020
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As Covid has shown, all of this could change in the the rub of an eye or a small cough.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 June 2024
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The higher the rub count, the more long-wearing the fabric.
—Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Mar. 2023
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Here’s the rub—and there’s often a rub with a release like this.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2024
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Yet, and here’s the rub, actors also see the rise of deepfakes as a chance to cash in.
—WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022
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That is the rub that’s happening in the debates in meeting rooms.
—Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024
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But, here's the rub: A twin flame connection is not always an easy one.
—Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 19 Aug. 2023
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But here’s the rub: Not all of these card benefits cover EVs.
—Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
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There’s the rub for Buffy and a lot of collaborative art.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2023
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And there’s the rub: Where there’s an audience, there’s a market, and the unusual sells.
—Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2023
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And that’s the rub: Long waits and staff stretched thin are the natural by-products of overexpansion.
—Maria Aspan, Fortune, 2 May 2024
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But here’s the rub: the barbeque is a wedding reception for his mother and his uncle.
—David Catlin, The Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2024
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And there’s the rub: when Waters stuck to rock star accoutrements that were acceptable in both the ‘80s and the present day (Guitar solos!
—Mark Sutherland, Variety, 7 June 2023
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And there’s the rub: The writer peers into a glass darkly, searching for God, but his own reflection stares back.
—Hamilton Cain, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2023
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Here’s the rub, though: Oreste stayed in town and became the deeply feared and ruthless head of a local mob that essentially rules the Sanità area.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
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And that’s the rub with the Heat’s current power rotation – there are no easy answers beyond Bam.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2022
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Here’s the rub: The performance share units and restricted stock units won’t vest for another three years.
—Byamanda Gerut, Fortune, 15 June 2024
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Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of the rub inside the body cavity and 1/2 teaspoon inside the neck cavity of the chicken.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
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Here’s the rub: To date, Nothing has released nothing but earbuds and cell phones—none of which have changed the market dramatically.
—Parker Hall, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2024
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Here is the rub, though: Prices at the wholesale level are falling, precipitously.
—Jon Markman, Forbes, 18 July 2022
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The widespread interest in gen AI has created a massive wave of use cases and experiments—and there’s the rub.
—Byrodney Zemmel, Fortune, 15 May 2024
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And there’s the rub for Democrats, and Independents and Libertarians.
—John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 25 May 2022
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And here’s the rub: causal power by itself, the ability to make the system do one thing rather than many other alternatives, cannot be simulated.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
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As with any executive order, the rub is in how a sprawling and abstract document will be turned into concrete action.
—WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
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This sort of thing—a rant, about tech industry types at Burning Man, posted on a social media site, then shared on other social media sites—is essentially the rub, the irony of Burning Man in 2023.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
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One area where there is potential for bipartisan support is easing supply chain woes, although, of course, the rub is in different party approaches.
—Grace Segers, The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
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And here’s the rub—attempting to build skills mastery using inferior or misguided knowledge base can be ineffective at best—or disastrous at worst.
—Chor Meng Tan, Forbes, 3 May 2023
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Music Prime offers the same robust musical catalog as Music Unlimited, but here's the rub: your musical selection is shuffled.
—PCMAG, 21 May 2024
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