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Example sentences for: rub

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The rub, however, is that fitness-enhancing mutations are a small minority, and the preponderance of deleterious mutations means that RNA viruses live on the edge of survival (Domingo 2000).
When you rub Gary's belly, he says, "Welcome the unborn into the world" and then emits a cute little giggle.
Are you taking care to "rub elbows with locals and tourists alike?"
It was the only way veterans who didn't have two nickels to rub together could own a home-- no down payment . Mortgages ran about $57 a month.
That's the rub, and that's why I'm not a fan: Pynchon is a writer you have to "get," and I find no activity less inspiring than Rubik's Cube-ing through a clue-strewn supertext in search of a paradoxical Eureka!