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Its nine stories concern the complicated Bengali families in India and America, and Lahiri’s elegant, observant prose is constantly alert to the ways that lore and folkways shape or abrade relationships.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

One recent study suggests that many particles enter the water when you repeatedly open or close the cap, and tiny bits abrade.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2024

With no mangled sheet metal to puncture or abrade tires, there ought to be fewer blowouts.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2022

Our veneer of civilization would not take all that much to abrade.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2018

Urban life tended to abrade tribal and ethnic distinctions, and instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrians.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The artist abrades the surfaces of his paintings, giving them a patina of age that contributes to their folkloric vibe and makes these images even more absorbing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Despite the dirt, the stains and the splitting, there’s little loss of paint — which sometimes abrades with rolling and unrolling.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Time is a stream, flowing around us and through us, incising lines on faces as it abrades rocks.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2010

When tape is removed, it abrades the skin.

From Washington Post

The bed of a mature glacier may form a long basin, since it abrades most in its upper and middle course, where its weight and motion are the greatest.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon

Perforated and abraded, the artwork has not been on display since its 1941 acquisition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

They abraded the rocks, revealing fresh surfaces that contain distinct rounded carbonate grains, a sign of settling in a lakefront.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 13, 2024

In other words, they investigated questions such as: What happens when these materials are abraded or burnt?

From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024

When tyres make contact with the road, tiny particles are abraded and emitted.

From Reuters ● May 17, 2023

“Great, Toomer. I’ll come here Friday after school and just go on to your place with you,” Ben said, leaving for home, the ends of his fingers abraded from the crab shells.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

It is only then, once you are still, that a now low, whipping wind, riddled with sand begins pricking and abrading your skin and collecting in the pages of your novel; it is intolerable.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025

On the way up, it will scout the rocks, including abrading more patches to see rock interiors.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 7, 2022

And, beyond that, Dr. Tarly cured greyscale with more abrading than I would have liked.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 12, 2019

The new album once again features Mr. Modirzadeh and Mr. ElSaffar in the foreground, blending or abrading their timbres in ways that shrug off the Western scale.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2012

I think it best not to leave them to drain dry; better take up all moisture with the cloth, and vigorous rubbing will do no harm if the surfaces have no abrading material on them.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard