chaff
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To prepare, the offense needs to invest in a new defense: improving chaff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
It will help separate the mathematical wheat from the chaff.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 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
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
Farmers clear small fields with axes and machetes, burn off the chaff and refuse, and plant their seeds.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
“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
Charles Reade chaffs the doctors very wittily in "Hard Cash" on their penchant for the word "hyperaesthesia," but nothing else exactly defines that exaggeration of nervous sensibility which I have invariably seen in opium-eaters.
From The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day
You get into a rage if any one chaffs you.
From Three Dramas by R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) Sharp
Hume Wheler, who, with Tom Lane, occasionally drops in upon them during his periodical trips from the interior, often chaffs his old friends upon that celebrated trophy.
From Tales of South Africa by H.A. Bryden
Other supporters chaffed at accusations that they are trying to ban books.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
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
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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