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Collect dust.
If something is collecting dust, it isn't being used any more.
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Interview staff collected dust until the collection bottle contained mass of dust roughly equivalent to 20 mL volume.
The report was widely praised and has mostly collected dust ever since.
Before George came with the truck, though, merchandise often collected dust for months, while its value plunged.
If they have collected dust, I take out the small towel I carry in my briefcase and wipe them off.
But mostly, they dance to dusties, an affectionate name for favorites, from the Isley Brothers to Marvin Gaye, deemed so old they have collected dust.
To provide a point of comparison, each volunteer also collected dust from an exterior door and then mailed the samples to Fierer's Colorado lab.
There, the armchairs and couch and carpets and sideboard and living-room table from Haifa collected dust and adhered to one another with thin nets of spiderwebs.
AZT collected dust on the shelf until the mid-1980s, when public awareness of the growing death toll from AIDS prompted a widespread search for treatments.
During a midweek game against the St . Louis Cardinals one such box — pinned between a trash receptacle and a cocktail concession stand — collected dust for 20 minutes.
On the 100th day, 30 November, the artist mixed the collected dust with clay before taking it to a brick factory – to make a semi-finished brick.
By unhappy coincidence, the report was unveiled at a news conference on Sept. 11, 2001, and has since "collected dust," said one of the authors, Felicia Cohn, who now directs medical ethics at the University of California, Irvine.
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