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scrubbing in
verb
Present participle of scrub in
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In Paris, we got kicked out of a restroom for scrubbing in the sinks.
What a fun reunion, I might have joked, until the nurse informed us that the parents were scrubbing in.
But as I was scrubbing in, the nurse asked, "We're using fluoroscopy in this case, so there's no chance you're pregnant, right?" Fluoroscopy is an imaging technique that uses X-rays, and the radiation exposure is thought to be harmful to developing fetuses.
On one celebrated occasion, Hawkesworth Fawkes, the eldest son of his patron Walter Fawkes, expressed his amazement on seeing Turner create from memory a richly detailed watercolour of a man-of-war within a few hours – pouring, tearing, scratching and scrubbing "in a kind of frenzy" until the final, detailed image emerged in time for lunch.
I had the luxury of never having to choose between spending more time with patients and their families, scrubbing in on a rare operation, or discussing a worrisome patient case with an attending surgeon or senior member of the resident team.
Neve Campbell is scrubbing in on "Grey's Anatomy".
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They scrubbed in.
"So can we scrub in?" the doctor said.
I scrubbed in and used a waterproof camera that I immersed in an antibacterial solution.
Then, once his tyres had scrubbed in, he piled on the pressure and pulled commandingly away.
He proceeded to scrub in silence all the floors, upstairs and down.
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