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"brush past" is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase usually is used to describe two people or objects passing near each other, brushing lightly against each other as they pass. For example: "The man brushed past the woman in the doorway as he left the room."
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brush past
verb
To go by (someone or something) quickly.
Exact(55)
You brush past people.
He felt them brush past him.
Their eyes meet, then brush past.
Saying "Sorry" as you brush past someone is perfectly acceptable.
My grandfather felt the big, hot, rushing heart brush past and vanish.
The rhetoric tended to brush past the fact that the pension funds didn't actually lose money.
There are the rushers, who brush past at a clip, knocking you with a briefcase.
Hot sunshine releases the heady scent of their essential oils as you brush past.
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"It was just a brush-past pitch," he says.
In one five-minute rush he fumbles a brush-past, spills his lock picks and is caught telephoning the east from an ambassador's hallway.
I brush past the man, grab another glass of champagne and disappear upstairs.
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