chaff

But as long-range drones get larger and carry heavier payloads, chaff is becoming more attractive as a low-cost way to confuse radar defense systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

“The larger world, if it doesn’t directly impact the day-to-day,” she told me, “becomes chaff that you kind of block out because you’re so focused on trying to survive this crucible that you’re in.”

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

“The big challenge for investors is to separate the wheat from the chaff and make sure that they don’t punish the true winners,” he said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

It's more about whether you actually believe in something — and boy, oh boy, has the wheat been separated from the chaff in that respect.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025

Together we have made pallets of cane chaff and leaves.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple

“One American can relish hugely the entertainment afforded when one quizzical Englishman chaffs his shy, ineloquent countrymen without expecting all other Americans to shake with laughter at the same spectacle,” Woollcott wrote.

From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2014

He snarls as well as chaffs at a world with the gout.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is one scene in which Wrayburn chaffs the schoolmaster with easy insolence, while the latter writhes impotently under his well-bred sarcasm.

From Views and Reviews by Henry James

How she pulls all the other girls to pieces, by Jove, and how splendidly she chaffs everybody!

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray

One of them dies, the other laughs; The seconds smile, the doctor chaffs.

From When hearts are trumps by Thomas Winthrop Hall

He no longer had complete control over his music and chaffed when it was suggested he do an Elvis cover.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 3, 2020

These are a godsend for my inner thighs on long, sweaty summer runs, when they otherwise become a red chaffed mess.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2019

Backstrom chaffed at Presidents' Trophy talk late last season after winning it in 2009 preceded a first-round exit.

From US News ● Oct. 3, 2016

Some of the causes of the anger are legitimate; the gardeners, for example, are chaffed over a lovingly tended community garden that was bulldozed by a developer.

From Time ● Jun. 1, 2016

Essaieff had been watching me, and now chaffed me a good deal about my conquest, and grew enthusiastic about my future.

From By Right of Sword by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont

It causes less chaffing than other bras I’ve owned, too.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2019

And it works very well to help prevent chaffing, too.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2019

I walked and ran through the heat of my chaffing toes and the cold of my shredded heels.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2018

At one point Mr Fucarile stops the interview - his new prosthetic leg is chaffing, and he is beginning to blister.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2014

Rondon kept his temper under control but made the chaffing remark, “Well, you have had a splendid bath, eh?”

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple