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

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

It will help separate the mathematical wheat from the chaff.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 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

Dummies made of wheat sheaves, of barley shocks, of straw, of chaff.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

“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

He often chaffs me about it, Sam does. 

From Novel Notes by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

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 Day, Horace B.

And then Denson he chaffs me and he says, 'Ah!

From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Morrison, Arthur

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

“Not a very hard thing as a rule,” chaffed Walter.

From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Penrose, Margaret

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