chaff
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As a drone countermeasure, the use of chaff isn’t completely new.
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
Put simply, while the biggest stocks in the AI trade still dominate index performance with the sheer heft of their market values, investors are separating the wheat from the chaff in the recent pullback.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
“The third king breathed on a basket of wheat. His disease blew away with the chaff. This is why wheat chaff is able to give people tuberculosis.”
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
“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 world calls for the rough and common virtue that guides a plough in a furrow, and sergeantly chaffs by the camp fires.
From William Shakespeare by John Masefield
He chaffs her tremendously about her radicalism, and he is so immensely clever that she can’t answer him, though she is rather clever too.
From A Bundle of Letters by Henry James
The youngster is jollier than ever, and chaffs his discomfited friend, whom he pronounces in private an awful snob.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Other supporters chaffed at accusations that they are trying to ban books.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
“A scandal with all the potential ramifications of Watergate, but where everyone involved is stupid and bad at everything,” Oliver chaffed on his weekly late-night satirical show.
From Washington Times ● May 1, 2023
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
“So I expect you to get up at three,” she chaffed them, “and return with your Victory birds.”
From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Algernon Blackwood
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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