abrade
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Its nine stories concern the complicated Bengali families in India and America, and Lahiri’s elegant, observant prose is constantly alert to the ways that lore and folkways shape or abrade relationships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
One recent study suggests that many particles enter the water when you repeatedly open or close the cap, and tiny bits abrade.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2024
This parodic picaresque finds Sturges at the zenith of his formidable powers to abrade and delight.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
Our veneer of civilization would not take all that much to abrade.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2018
Urban life tended to abrade tribal and ethnic distinctions, and instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrians.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
The artist abrades the surfaces of his paintings, giving them a patina of age that contributes to their folkloric vibe and makes these images even more absorbing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Despite the dirt, the stains and the splitting, there’s little loss of paint — which sometimes abrades with rolling and unrolling.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
Time is a stream, flowing around us and through us, incising lines on faces as it abrades rocks.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2010
When tape is removed, it abrades the skin.
From Washington Post
By its motion in wind the air drives loose sand over rocks, and in course of time abrades and smoothes them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Perforated and abraded, the artwork has not been on display since its 1941 acquisition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
They abraded the rocks, revealing fresh surfaces that contain distinct rounded carbonate grains, a sign of settling in a lakefront.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 13, 2024
In other words, they investigated questions such as: What happens when these materials are abraded or burnt?
From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024
When tyres make contact with the road, tiny particles are abraded and emitted.
From Reuters ● May 17, 2023
“Great, Toomer. I’ll come here Friday after school and just go on to your place with you,” Ben said, leaving for home, the ends of his fingers abraded from the crab shells.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
It is only then, once you are still, that a now low, whipping wind, riddled with sand begins pricking and abrading your skin and collecting in the pages of your novel; it is intolerable.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025
On the way up, it will scout the rocks, including abrading more patches to see rock interiors.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 7, 2022
And, beyond that, Dr. Tarly cured greyscale with more abrading than I would have liked.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 12, 2019
The calcaneal fat pad keeps the bone from abrading the skin on the underside of the heel.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2016
The levelling and abrading action of water on rock has an entirely different character.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
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