coarse
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A stadium takes the coarse block and, for a few hours, forces the finer sort my model said was missing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Some large coarse fish, such as chub, roach and dace were also killed.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
During the hottest hours, many retreat to makeshift huts -- frames of sticks draped with coarse homespun cloth, plastered with wild donkey dung.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
Under normal conditions, turbidites show a consistent pattern, with coarse material settling at the bottom and finer sediment layering on top.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026
Behind the bar, a white man, bald and shiny, leans against the polished wood counter, eagle eye on the coarse fellow and the girl.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
The coarser material on top appeared to result from a subsequent event along the nearby San Andreas fault.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026
They’re small, the colors are garish, and they’re coarser in feeling than the work for which he is best known.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
Instead of chasing smoothness, I embraced the coarser texture of cornmeal, letting it resist cohesion.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
Even the Pokémon noises are gently mellowed out in contrast to the coarser, more caterwauling sounds of the games; here the creatures purr, cry, coo and sigh like docile house pets.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
It fell, in waves and curls and disobedient frizzy wisps—soft on the inside, coarser on the outside—to just below where her small, strong waist began its curve out towards her hips.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Hershey assumes Mounds consumers crave coconut meat at its coarsest and its exfoliating benefits for the digestive tract.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022
Justice Stephen G. Breyer was particularly concerned about whether racial slurs and the coarsest of words have a lingering effect.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2019
Areas closest to the river and its branches rose the highest in elevation, because they got the most doses of the coarsest sediment.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 3, 2018
One is that when you run iPhone apps on the Mini, it uses the coarsest version of the graphics for that app - the version designed for iPhones up to the 2009 model, the 3GS.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2012
The visitor was a stout man in cracked, mud-caked boots and a heavy brown robe of the coarsest roughspun, his features hidden by a cowl, his hands drawn up into voluminous sleeves.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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