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in the grain

ADJECTIVE

inherent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

built-in constitutional deep-rooted deep-seated essential fundamental genetic implicit ingrained innate instinctive internal intrinsic latent natural

WEAK

characteristic congenital connate distinctive elementary fixed immanent inborn inbred inbuilt indigenous indispensable individual indwelling inherited inner integral integrated intimate inward native original part-and-parcel resident running in the family subjective unalienable

Antonyms

STRONGEST

acquired auxiliary extra extrinsic learned minor secondary superficial unimportant

WEAK

added external incidental

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The ripples in the grain, he said, help notes linger longer.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

The country now supplies more than 40% of the global export market in the grain, with the United States, Canada, and Europe the largest consumers.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 26, 2024

When brewing beer, brewers extract sugars from malted barley — barley grains that have been partially germinated and then dried to make available the starches in the grain and enzymes that break them down.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2023

For example, an interruption in the grain supply in 190 CE resulted in famine and riots in the city of Rome.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

“At the meeting. He’s older. All the men are at the meeting. But my mother didn’t go. The mothers don’t always go. She’s in the grain room, packing grain.”

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

in the grain

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