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Main Entry:
chaff
[
chaf
,
chahf
]
/
tʃæf
,
tʃɑf
/
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Main Entry:
chaff
Part of Speech:
Main Entry:
chaff
Part of Speech:
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Your summary separates the wheat from the chaff and makes allowance for common usage.
To look more carefully at these questions one must peer through a cloud of statistical and econometric chaff.
It also produces far too many ideas: managers have to spend weeks sorting through the chaff to find a few grains of wheat.
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Your summary separates the wheat from the chaff and makes allowance for common usage.
To look more carefully at these questions one must peer through a cloud of statistical and econometric chaff.
It also produces far too many ideas: managers have to spend weeks sorting through the chaff to find a few grains of wheat.
It's heartening to see only one piece of chaff in the wheat here.
Primaries serve to support the wheat from the chaff.
Surprisingly, though, one of them had a morsel of insight amid all the chaff.
Had there not been so much chaff mixed with the wheat, the entire session would have been one long riot.
Nothing wrong with separating the wheat from the chaff.
They ate the sprouts of new flowers and the buds of apples and the tough leaves of oak trees and even last year's chaff.
Take that and multiply it by the thousands of blogs that exist, and the trouble lies in separating the wheat from the chaff.
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Main Entry:
chaff
Part of Speech:
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry:
Chaff
Part of Speech:
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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