chaff

One drone can release chaff to hide another or create enough confusion for a strike package to get through.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

They also reportedly have dispensers for chaff -- metal shavings that distract radar-guided missiles -- and flares that blind heat-seeking missiles.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

“The larger world, if it doesn’t directly impact the day-to-day,” she told me, “becomes chaff that you kind of block out because you’re so focused on trying to survive this crucible that you’re in.”

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 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

After the zafra over, I work on drainage ditches for rice, I clear weeds, I cut and burn chaff.

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

Everybody chaffs everybody else in this house pretty freely.

From The Rebellion of Margaret by Arthur Twidle

The man chaffs at worldly conventions, at the dullness of society, at the hypocrisy of so-called respectable people, and congratulates himself and his fair companion on the fun they are having.

From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Lyon Phelps

Whereupon one of them, a handsome chap in a soft hat, leans his elbows squarely on the table in front of him, wags his head saucily and openly chaffs the solemn regulator.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various

Other supporters chaffed at accusations that they are trying to ban books.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Meanwhile, Faulconer’s middle-ground politics have chaffed with some of his party’s conservative activists.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 2, 2021

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

“Just when she had a husband picked out for each of you, too,” chaffed Paul.

From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Margaret Penrose

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