chaff
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But for my money, there is too much tedious, mealymouthed chaff obscuring what should be her larger point.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
They also reportedly have dispensers for chaff -- metal shavings that distract radar-guided missiles -- and flares that blind heat-seeking missiles.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
My peers would say we’ve always served that purpose, but sorting wheat from chaff isn’t the same as steering someone toward shows that are not simply satisfying but palliative.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
For a while there was total peace and quiet, with nothing but the sound of Piper humming quietly and a chiff- chaff chiff-chaffing in the apple tree and me turning the pages of a book.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
“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
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
He knows all their little weaknesses, and chaffs them with delightful point and humour, though he would not, for all the world, give them pain.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
You get into a rage if any one chaffs you.
From Three Dramas by R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) Sharp
Meanwhile, Faulconer’s middle-ground politics have chaffed with some of his party’s conservative activists.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 2, 2021
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
Christie’s new structure chaffed many of the 125 longtime prosecutors who previously moved freely between silos and were already predisposed to distrust the newcomer and his full embrace of new surveillance programs.
From Time ● Nov. 23, 2015
They chaffed him unmercifully, but he liked it.
From A Humble Enterprise by Ada Cambridge
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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