as in coarse
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Adjective
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Why do populists connect to the public using coarse language?—
Stephen Humphries,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Jan. 2025 -
Drip coffee is made with a coarse coffee grind, and the cold brew is brewed similarly but at a slightly lower temperature.—
Jaina Grey,
WIRED,
12 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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At a compact difference outside Montevideo are 1,000 kilometers of coast, a broad gamut of beaches, desert dunes and extensive rural landscapes.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2025
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The rollback of transgender rights is part of a broader attack on the LGBTQ community.—
David Kilmnick,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But Ritz’s salty campaign with Aubrey Plaza and Matt Shannon, Uber Eats’ Matthew McConaughey-led, Charli XCX-featuring bit about football being invented to sell food, and Häagen-Dazs’ Fast & Furious tribute also ranked highly.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
10 Feb. 2025
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Cover traditional barbecue wings in a strawberry chipotle sauce and serve alongside a sweet and salty dark ale.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Even the film’s basic exposition, showing Anna working in Klaus’s household and receiving her fateful instructions from Hansen, is richly suggestive of the turmoil vibrating beneath the orderly domestic surface.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
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And yet, just of late, the stock is exhibiting characteristics suggestive of a bottom.—
Carter Braxton Worth,
CNBC,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Yellow is the easiest, while purple is the hardest, and green and blue are of medium difficulty.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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Additionally, always be on the lookout for green or blue dots, which is a sure sign of mold — which can be toxic when ingested, per the Cleveland Clinic.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
16 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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While crude oil was the largest import for Alabama in 2023, automobile and automobile parts followed right behind.—
Jennifer Lindahl,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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The Midstream segment provides crude oil and refined petroleum product transportation, terminaling and processing services, as well as natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) transportation, storage, fractionation, gathering, processing and marketing service.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Who knew that banning books, paying teachers pitiful salaries and threatening them with jail if they were caught with salacious book titles would be the holy grail of student success.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
6 Feb. 2025
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There is nothing improper in this, unless it can be shown that the letter and the attorney have crossed a line—from asserting claims and demanding relief to committing extortion by threatening damaging public disclosures of salacious allegations that can destroy a celebrity's livelihood.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Two major developments in the mid-1800s showed why impure water is dangerous.—
Bill Sullivan,
The Conversation,
27 Jan. 2025
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The evocation of the boy’s impure actions, as well as the undertow of sexuality in both his parish priest’s solicitude and his father’s violence, caught the attention of the censors, who typically busied themselves outlawing pulp erotica.—
Sam Sacks,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Coarse-grained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coarse-grained. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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