fine-grained
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Kristen Adam’s softly textured watercolors convey the dreamy quality of days spent on a beach, fine-grained sand underfoot and crisp blue waves hissing against the shore.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Rand’s funding is now running out, potentially leaving Hollywood organizations without the fine-grained information they’ve been getting from Rand.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Resolve can precisely measure the energy of individual X-ray photons, so the scientists anticipated seeing fine-grained details that had never been captured before.
From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2025
They are about 3.5bn years old and are a type of rock called mudstone, which is fine-grained rock formed from clays.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025
The skin on the right cheek was smooth and fine-grained and hairless.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Vocabulary lists containing fine-grained
Earth Science - Middle School
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Rocks and Minerals - Introductory
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Earth Science - High School
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