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The phrase "dust for" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used when talking about searching for something or gathering evidence. Example: The forensic team arrived at the crime scene and began to dust for fingerprints on all surfaces in the room.
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✔ "You can't really dust for vomit".
"It's difficult to dust for fingerprints in a digital world".
It was a job of dust for five days.
It stayed there, gathering dust, for another five months.
You don't dust for fingerprints on a subculture, though.
Singles were gold dust for Middlesex, painful for Kent.
Opportunities like this are like gold dust for the ambitious among us.
Kickin' up bi-ig death dust for this year, hey-yeh!' 'Bullshit,' was my snappy rejoinder.
A recommendation from Victoria Beckham has got to be like gold dust for any brand.
"Someone called and said, 'Hey, you should dust for fingerprints,' " Detective Celello recalled.
It continued to come down, that yellow dust, for nearly thirteen minutes.
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