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
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
It’s rare that a punctuation mark becomes grist for the online rumor mill.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025
Finals of schoolboy sports, dog racing, strange little competitions in the remoter counties, all these are grist to our hungry mill.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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