chaff

But for my money, there is too much tedious, mealymouthed chaff obscuring what should be her larger point.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

Put simply, while the biggest stocks in the AI trade still dominate index performance with the sheer heft of their market values, investors are separating the wheat from the chaff in the recent pullback.

From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025

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

Hazel jumped lightly on it and from there to the thick planks, which were old and soft-surfaced, dusty and covered with chaff.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

“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

The fifth letter opens with a long complimentary flourish in a barbarous mixture of Italian and Spanish, and then chaffs Pirkheimer unmercifully for his increasing intrigues.

From Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. Sweetser

Everybody chaffs everybody else in this house pretty freely.

From The Rebellion of Margaret by Arthur Twidle

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

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

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

Congress stepped forward with enormous aid packages in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, though some GOP conservatives — including then-Indiana Rep. Pence — chaffed at the price tag.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2017

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

I sent her a hundred dollars, the sum she specified, but in writing her thanks, she "chaffed" me for not making out a cheque.

From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

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