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sandblast

verb

as in to scrape

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Recent Examples of sandblast The duo brought the building down to the bones and gave the space its first major facelift in 40 years, playing up the art deco design elements and keeping, sandblasting and reupholstering the hundreds of original seats (whose walnut armrests bear a natural patina from decades of use). —

Alicia Wallace, CNN, 3 Aug. 2024 The words were quickly sandblasted away by the authorities, and the artists were ultimately sentenced to long prison terms. —

Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2022 Through specialized machinery, the denim is colored—utilizing a secret formula for the brand’s signature blue—and then stained and sandblasted. —

Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 13 Feb. 2024 Over the course of about a year, Chen tested different ways of whittling down the metal by effectively sandblasting it with atoms. —

Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for sandblast

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The Colorado Department of Transportation’s statewide map showed all interstate and major state highways open as of 10:30 a.m., with dozens of plows busy scraping roadways.

— Max Levy, The Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2025
The project, which has over 1,200 submissions, has evolved to include an army of volunteers who scrape data from Zillow and report violations to the city’s 311 hotline, the LA County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs, and the state Attorney General’s office.

— Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 17 Jan. 2025