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• “The rug was hopelessly sparkling with ground-in gold dust.”

  Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms

• “Our testing of those carpet cleaners revealed that professional service delivered the best cleaning performance — and you certainly can't beat the convenience — though some of the tested machines cleaned ground-in dirt nearly as well.”

  Consumer Reports: Q&A: How can I keep my carpeting looking its best?

• “There are fewer barnacles clinging to the Maine coastline than there are people's ground-in gobs of gum on a mid-Manhattan street.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Attacking Our Sidewalks' Black Plague

• “Our testing of those carpet cleaners revealed that professional service delivered the best cleaning performance—and you certainly can't beat the convenience—though some of the tested machines cleaned ground-in dirt nearly as well.”

  Consumer Reports: Q&A: How can I keep my carpeting looking its best?

• “Carpet cleaners and stain removersSome of the larger carpet-cleaning machines we tested from Hoover and Bissell were not as effective as the Stanley Steemer professional carpet-cleaning service at removing ground-in dirt.”

  Consumer Reports: What’s new in Consumer Reports: Home content from the March 2010 issue

• “The $199 Garry Ultra Light vacuum is a "professional quality" vacuum that "loosens stubborn, even hidden ground-in dirt from your carpets" and other surfaces "the first time you pass over the dirt," touts the company's Web site.”

  Consumer Reports: Inside Consumer Reports Test Labs: The Garry upright vacuum is a lightweight . . . in more ways than one

• “Hodge had fixed the swelling bruise on her arm, and twenty minutes in the shower had gotten most of the ground-in asphalt out of her skin, but she still felt raw and aching.”

  Simon & Schuster: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series

• “I've gotten dried blood out of a turquoise shirt and ground-in dark chocolate out of a white shirt with the same product that works every time - dishwashing liquid.”

  Use Homemade Stain Removers To Banish Tough Stains | Lifehacker Australia

• “The ones that were "basically dirt free" or had "light dirt" — "occasional 'ground-in' spots but generally clean" — were rated clean.”

  Hey 3, 4, 6: You Got a Little Shmutz There

• “I don't know what you heard from Chris Matthews, so I can't evaluate it in context; but I stopped watching him years ago because of his ground-in misogyny.”

  Fiddy's Windfall

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