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In one episode, the floor is covered in dirty laundry; in another, the room is cluttered with gifts from friends that the owner can’t bear to throw away.
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Jamie Gutfreund, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
At Fresno's Fort Miller Middle School, where half the students were chronically absent, two reasons kept coming up: dirty laundry and no transportation.
—Jocelyn Gecker, arkansasonline.com, 17 Aug. 2024
At Fresno’s Fort Miller Middle School, where half the students were chronically absent, two reasons kept coming up: dirty laundry and no transportation.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
His apartment is barely furnished—nothing but a sofa, a TV mounted on the wall playing a Netflix procedural on mute, a mound of dirty laundry, and a little weed and a few Xanax bars scattered across the counter.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 2 Aug. 2024
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Jamie Gutfreund, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
At Fresno's Fort Miller Middle School, where half the students were chronically absent, two reasons kept coming up: dirty laundry and no transportation.
—Jocelyn Gecker, arkansasonline.com, 17 Aug. 2024
At Fresno’s Fort Miller Middle School, where half the students were chronically absent, two reasons kept coming up: dirty laundry and no transportation.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
His apartment is barely furnished—nothing but a sofa, a TV mounted on the wall playing a Netflix procedural on mute, a mound of dirty laundry, and a little weed and a few Xanax bars scattered across the counter.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Dirty laundry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirty%20laundry. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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