grist
Example Sentences
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Generations later, China and its tech ambitions are providing similar grist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
I’m not looking for a bot to remove the grist of plotting out and writing something good.
From Slate ● May 24, 2026
Restoring the restaurant has become a passion project for the writers, a journey that became grist for a documentary, “¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!,” which streams on Paramount+.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Efforts to make real Hollywood-style movies resulted in comically bad failures like “Lady Ballers,” which probably made more money for the content creators who used it as grist for their mockery mill.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
I didn’t mind the cereal if I could soak it in milk, letting the cream gather up the grist and seep into the pellets, but since the revelation we’d been having it with water.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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