coarse
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Some large coarse fish, such as chub, roach and dace were also killed.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
The new surface isn’t plastic like a typical pool lining, which is easier to cut, but is more like a coarse coat of paint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
During the hottest hours, many retreat to makeshift huts -- frames of sticks draped with coarse homespun cloth, plastered with wild donkey dung.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
Under normal conditions, turbidites show a consistent pattern, with coarse material settling at the bottom and finer sediment layering on top.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026
I had met Titi Generosa when we lived in Santurce and liked the sound of her loud, coarse voice and the way she moved her hands when she spoke, as if she were kneading words.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
The ad itself uses coarser language and has given rise to awkwardness: “That makes the LGBTQ+ community think, ‘Oh, Spencer,’ and Heidi, my wife, is a huge gay icon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The scope of SinoProbe II—successor to SinoProbe I, a coarser survey that ran from 2008–16—“is mind-boggling,” says Larry Brown, a geophysicist at Cornell University.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 17, 2024
Less electricity was produced when coffee had a higher internal moisture content and when coffee was ground at a coarser setting.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2023
With dramatic cliffs, sea lions and coarser darker sand, it was a drastically different world and such a different kind of beautiful from where we live along the bay in Coastal Alabama.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2023
“Plus, they have coarser, thicker hair than normal dogs, and their hair usually gets stuck on the trees they pass,” Valley said.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Hershey assumes Mounds consumers crave coconut meat at its coarsest and its exfoliating benefits for the digestive tract.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022
Areas closest to the river and its branches rose the highest in elevation, because they got the most doses of the coarsest sediment.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 3, 2018
And by the way, do you like my fashionable new hairshirt, made with only the coarsest of goat hair?
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2016
One is that when you run iPhone apps on the Mini, it uses the coarsest version of the graphics for that app - the version designed for iPhones up to the 2009 model, the 3GS.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2012
The visitor was a stout man in cracked, mud-caked boots and a heavy brown robe of the coarsest roughspun, his features hidden by a cowl, his hands drawn up into voluminous sleeves.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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