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But it also helps us understand why a crumpled sock in the middle of the living room or dirty dishes on the kitchen counter makes the exhausted woman in your life crash out.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Technologists envision a future where robots can supplement a declining labor force caused by shifting demographics, and spare humans from dangerous and dirty work.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

At one point in the police interview, she cried while saying "this was something dirty that had happened".

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

He also disarms skeptics with self-deprecation: “I am a dirty, rotten sinner,” he often says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

One basket is filled only with colorful patterned socks, and another basket is propping the door open, piled high with dirty white laundry.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Surely there remain easier, quicker, dirtier ways to get there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Natural gas has long been billed as a "bridge fuel" between dirtier polluting fossil fuels and renewables such as wind and solar.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

In other cases, that means turning to older and dirtier energy sources like coal.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026

He added: “Shoes are definitely dirtier than feet. Because I wash my feet all the time. When’s the last time you washed the bottom of your shoe?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

The streets seemed dirtier when they got out, and the apartment seemed smaller.

From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte

The town, just a short drive from the capital, Pristina, produces almost all of the country's electricity by burning lignite, the lowest-quality and dirtiest coal, dug from nearby pits.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Listening to “The Boutique,” I feel like I should be smoking a cigarette and drinking the dirtiest martini known to man in a speakeasy, wearing a drop waist silk dress and bright red lipstick.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

For the 10th consecutive year, the area around the Santa Monica Pier was named one of California’s dirtiest beaches by researchers with the environmental nonprofit Heal the Bay.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

He urges his team to hire “somebody that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirtiest dirty business of media and propaganda.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

The dirtiest jobs fell to me: water hauling, wood chopping, and chamber-pot emptying.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

“Today, there are also open drains lining homes which dirties the blue paint and damages the walls,” says Mr Dave.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024

“It dirties up a case. It brings in more otherwise inadmissible information,” said Hamasaki, who is now running for San Francisco district attorney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

Buying two or three sets of sheets does mean using up some already limited storage, but students not terribly laundry-responsible won’t go into crisis when the dirties pile up.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2022

"This summit does not dignify anyone, rather, it dirties them, it sullies them. We Latin Americans have to defend ourselves so that they respect us."

From Reuters ● May 19, 2022

Whenever he feels trapped and panic sets in, he loses control and dirties himself.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

It was all there: The windswept bangs, the naturalistic lighting highlighting perfect cheekbones, the flowing, unstructured dresses and dirtied booties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I'm not surprised to see air pollution, it's why we're doing the experiment, but I can't escape a feeling of being dirtied, contaminated… sullied by it.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

And it’s only possible underground, in a place where the apocalypse hasn’t dirtied the tablecloths.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

Soon after word of the war’s end reaches Bertie and Sofie, Bertie discovers an emaciated young man unconscious in the asparagus patch “in the dirtied stripes of a camp prisoner.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025

He was vomiting and the vomit ran down his chest and stomach and dirtied his swimming trunks.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Groups, including the United Nations children's charity Unicef, have said that girls in Sierra Leone often miss school during their periods for fear of dirtying their uniform.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

It’s a plan that risks pleasing no one, while also dirtying the company’s valuation.

From Reuters ● Feb. 15, 2023

Next, the dough gets slathered with a honey butter you can make in the microwave if you don’t feel like dirtying a saucepan.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023

“Not that there has not been any efforts, there have been several cleaning campaigns, but there are more people dirtying it. People are the problem.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2022

The idea of Francis and me dirtying our hands with experiments brought unconcealed amusement.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson