chaff
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But for my money, there is too much tedious, mealymouthed chaff obscuring what should be her larger point.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
As a drone countermeasure, the use of chaff isn’t completely new.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
It may do better to address the chaff of quarterly earnings guidance.
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
It's more about whether you actually believe in something — and boy, oh boy, has the wheat been separated from the chaff in that respect.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025
Together we have made pallets of cane chaff and leaves.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
“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
The rig'lars chaffs me fit to throw it at their 'eads, they does—only there's too many on 'em, an' I've got to dror it mild.
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by George MacDonald
“O I’m des a fishing, Brer Fox,” says he; and Brer Fox goes into the bucket while Brer Rabbit escapes and chaffs his comrade.
From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by William Alexander Clouston
Everybody chaffs everybody else in this house pretty freely.
From The Rebellion of Margaret by Arthur Twidle
He no longer had complete control over his music and chaffed when it was suggested he do an Elvis cover.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 3, 2020
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
They chaffed him unmercifully, but he liked it.
From A Humble Enterprise by Ada Cambridge
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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