chaff
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New, compact chaff systems could protect long-range drones in a way that was once only possible for manned aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
It will help separate the mathematical wheat from the chaff.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
My peers would say we’ve always served that purpose, but sorting wheat from chaff isn’t the same as steering someone toward shows that are not simply satisfying but palliative.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
“Our sense remains that the core of the AI thesis remains intact and would probably survive a continued separating of the wheat from the chaff in the frothier parts of the equity market.”
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025
For days at a time the animals had nothing to eat but chaff and mangels.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
“One American can relish hugely the entertainment afforded when one quizzical Englishman chaffs his shy, ineloquent countrymen without expecting all other Americans to shake with laughter at the same spectacle,” Woollcott wrote.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2014
He snarls as well as chaffs at a world with the gout.
From Time Magazine Archive
He stands it from me and only chaffs.
From Elizabeth's Campaign by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Charles Reade chaffs the doctors very wittily in "Hard Cash" on their penchant for the word "hyperaesthesia," but nothing else exactly defines that exaggeration of nervous sensibility which I have invariably seen in opium-eaters.
From The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day
He knows all their little weaknesses, and chaffs them with delightful point and humour, though he would not, for all the world, give them pain.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
Meanwhile, Faulconer’s middle-ground politics have chaffed with some of his party’s conservative activists.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 2, 2021
These are a godsend for my inner thighs on long, sweaty summer runs, when they otherwise become a red chaffed mess.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2019
Backstrom chaffed at Presidents' Trophy talk late last season after winning it in 2009 preceded a first-round exit.
From US News ● Oct. 3, 2016
Some of the causes of the anger are legitimate; the gardeners, for example, are chaffed over a lovingly tended community garden that was bulldozed by a developer.
From Time ● Jun. 1, 2016
“Not a very hard thing as a rule,” chaffed Walter.
From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Margaret Penrose
It causes less chaffing than other bras I’ve owned, too.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2019
And it works very well to help prevent chaffing, too.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2019
I walked and ran through the heat of my chaffing toes and the cold of my shredded heels.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2018
At one point Mr Fucarile stops the interview - his new prosthetic leg is chaffing, and he is beginning to blister.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2014
Rondon kept his temper under control but made the chaffing remark, “Well, you have had a splendid bath, eh?”
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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