grating
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The way AI talks to us is grating and disingenuous—and can even be harmful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s a little grating to see boorish Tony offer him business tips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Even though I find loudcasting intensely grating, I have never registered an official complaint and have only occasionally asked other passengers to turn the volume down on their device.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Working, after all, is how a majority of people must spend most of their waking hours, and toiling away in an industry or at a position you find grating will undoubtedly make you miserable.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Dustfinger wished he could put his hands through the grating and shake this silly little goose.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
Traditional spectrometers work by splitting light into its component colors using prisms or gratings, then measuring the intensity of each wavelength.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
He looked through the door and was able to see a grating sitting on top of other gratings - leaving a void with the North Sea below it.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Earlier versions of such gratings, made from materials like silicon or gallium compounds, required thicknesses of several hundred nanometers to function effectively.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
The lamprey ladder at Bonneville is an elaborate chute system with smooth surfaces lamprey can attach to, rounded corners, no gratings and places to rest.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
At one end of the cove, an enormous pileup of wreckage from years of storms provided a steady supply of firewood: block and tackle, hatch gratings, spars, masts, lockers.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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