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• n  a large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug
• n  a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in

• But in his first 15 years of competition he had trouble making it to the far end of the sandpit.
• Small fry, hot from the daily sandpit wars, will dote on this.
• For posterity, take home one of the "old" photos that show the desolate sandpit that was Dubai in the early '90s.

• sandbox
• sandpile

News & Articles

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• UMass Lowell team wins NASA competition to build Mars rover (VIDEO)
  LOWELL -- Watching the 3-foot-long rover inching up Mount Cosmo, the hill in a sandpit at NASA's training center in Houston under the glittering sun last Thursday, Eric McCann could only bite his nails.
  June 11, 2013 - Lowell Sun

Quotes

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• Anna Bligh in NEWS.com.au
  Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said the Liberals should get "out of the sandpit" and show some maturity for the sake of the state.
• Jonathan Nolan in Scotsman
  It was like riding a bike into a sandpit at full speed,says Jonathan Nolan, the director's brother, who wrote the short story from which Memento was adapted. "We thought, we've got this place figured out completely, and then we had to...
• Garth Tander in Daily Telegraph
  I had a right front tyre let go braking at The Chase and ended up in the sandpit, so that put us behind the eight ball,Tander said. "It wasn't a real successful day, we were a bit off program. We started off Phillip Island the same way, so...