oiled
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In college, I found a treadle machine in an empty dorm room, oiled it and made a blouse and quilt.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
Over the following months the wood is cut, settled, rounded, spliced, planed, fitted with a brass tip and leather pad, sanded in nine different ways, oiled, and finally waxed, before being complete.
From BBC • May 2, 2025
“Once it gets challenged or exposed, the gaslighting and redirection of the blame toward anyone willing to tell the truth starts through an international well oiled publicity machine,” Freedman said.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2024
During the clean-up efforts, crews recovered three dead, oiled birds from around Swan Lake: two brown pelicans and a laughing gull.
From Seattle Times • May 20, 2024
There, light from the window of thick oiled paper falling golden on their faces, the two young women sewed and talked.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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