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sandpaper
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sandpaper, abrasive originally made by gluing grains of sand to heavy paper sheets. Today sandpaper is made primarily with quartz, aluminum oxide, or silicon carbide grains, and is graded according to the size of the grains. It is used for smoothing and polishing, for removing old paint or varnish, and for otherwise preparing wood surfaces for refinishing or other treatment.


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And when that scheme fails, I intend to start sandpapering off the red paint on my neighborhood's curbs.
Without Copenheaver's precision sandpapering of course, the dating lacked her usual precision.
Not that there aren't edges that still need sandpapering, and not that the unceasing references to God aren't presumptuous and wearying on the ear.
 
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