coarse
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India's main summer crops include rice, pulses, coarse cereals, oilseeds, cotton, sugarcane and jute.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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
Like other parts of Istanbul, Karagümrük has received waves of coarse, rural migrants over the years, from Anatolia and the Black Sea coast, drawn to Istanbul for a better life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
When Elinor heard the shots she jumped up so fast that she stumbled over her blanket in the dark and fell full length in the coarse grass.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
They’re small, the colors are garish, and they’re coarser in feeling than the work for which he is best known.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
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
That allowed the model to simulate the fine-scale atmospheric processes that give rise to clouds, which in coarser models have to be estimated.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 16, 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
They were younger, coarser men who enforced every niggling regulation, whose job was to harass and demoralize us.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Is it a mistake to always default to the view that the people in the mirror universe are driven by the coarsest possible factors, by racism and greed, for example?
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
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
Jeffrey Harmon says the concept was inspired by something he’d noticed as a missionary in Ireland: upper-crust accents refine the coarsest jokes.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 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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