chaff
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New, compact chaff systems could protect long-range drones in a way that was once only possible for manned aircraft.
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
A short walk away, a threshing machine spews clouds of dust and chaff as wheat pours out in a steady stream, rattling into worn brown sacks at farmers' feet.
From Barron's ● May 15, 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
Halfway down he sneezed violently in an eddy of chaff.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
“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
Sunday school, Church-going, prayers given up because Jem chaffs so about them.
From Boys their Work and Influence by Anonymous
Whereupon one of them, a handsome chap in a soft hat, leans his elbows squarely on the table in front of him, wags his head saucily and openly chaffs the solemn regulator.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various
He chaffs her tremendously about her radicalism, and he is so immensely clever that she can’t answer him, though she is rather clever too.
From A Bundle of Letters by Henry James
Other supporters chaffed at accusations that they are trying to ban books.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
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 Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2016
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
Friends of mine chaffed me unmercifully over that topsy-turvy exploit.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
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
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