Brushes and Figures

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Figures and brushes are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Figures" instead a verb "Brushes".

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Brushes and figures are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brushes" instead a verb "Figures".

John figures that she might have killed him, but Sherlock brushes off the tense as something a murderer would specifically know to get "wrong".

Source: Suspiciously Specific Tense
This is fiction set in a distinctive historical period other than the one the author lives in, which brushes up against actual historical figures if it doesn't star them outright.

Source: Historical Fiction
Lisa's outrage is justified as the Ogdenville band won despite breaking the rules, as well as her appealing to higher figures, since the competition judge doesn't care about the rules violation and brushes her off when she complains.

Source: Strawman Has a Point

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Figures and Brushes. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/brushes/figures

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