abrade

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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

During one brawl, the editor Dan Lebental cuts again and again to Edgin stuck on the sidelines struggling to abrade his rope cuffs.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2022

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