grist
Example Sentences
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By the second day, one friend was walking arm-in-arm toward the cinnamon bread grist mill with its cashier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
I’m not looking for a bot to remove the grist of plotting out and writing something good.
From Slate ● May 24, 2026
The unearthing in 2018 of a charcoal inscription at Pompeii featuring a date in October has been grist to the mill of those who seek to push the eruption beyond August.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
For added populist grist, the club is located above the Milken Institute, a think tank founded by a formerly incarcerated financier, Michael Milken, and is majority owned by Ron Burkle, a billionaire investor.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2025
But you’ve got to have grist before you can grind; and there was no more for the new mill to do than for the old.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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