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Adjective
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Using a pastry blender, cut in butter and shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.—
Holly Riordan,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Feb. 2026 -
With a coarser grind, the water flows more quickly and won’t pull as much flavor out from the beans.—
Noah Kaufman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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They're exhausted by the constant airing of grievances having little to do with what's actually going on in the country, and by the broad generalizations about, well, everything, that ignore context, nuance and facts to promote a political viewpoint.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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Her analysis further suggests that a sanctions-relief agreement that leaves Iran’s broader capabilities intact could stabilize the regime at a moment of internal pressure while preserving its military leverage.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Whole Foods’ Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups are also getting a fresh new Valentine’s look, for those in search of a rich and salty treat.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Feb. 2026
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With a nice balance of milk chocolate and peanut butter, and a peanut butter filling that wasn’t too sweet or too salty, this was the easy favorite for our editors.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Patients accused Heaps of groping them, performing unnecessarily invasive examinations and making suggestive comments.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
3 Feb. 2026
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The report noted some mottling and nodules in the liver and a spleen with one hypoechoic mass and multiple similar nodules suggestive of hemangiosarcoma.—
Dr. John De Jong,
Boston Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The most massive stars are going to be hotter, larger, bluer, more luminous, but also shorter-lived than the less massive stars.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Olympic torch is a blue-green shade, and the Paralympic torch is gold.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Sounds a little salacious, yes?—
Brittany Anas,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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Lawyers for the coaches argued that the presence of a salacious video should not result in a harsher penalty than the warnings and disqualifications that FIS has issued for equipment violations in the past.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Kanto practitioners believe that women cannot participate because, according to Japan's Shinto religion, women's blood from menstruation and childbirth is considered impure for the purpose of religious rituals.—
Anthony Kuhn,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Their inclusion underlines the wider context of the film, provoking the audience to hold these pure and impure images together.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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This neighborhood, peopled almost entirely by the people who claim to have been driven from Poland and Russia, is the eyesore of New York and perhaps the filthiest place on the western continent.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Rodents, roaches, flies and knives stored in filthy places were among the myriad violations on this week’s Sick and Shut Down List of South Florida restaurants that failed state inspection.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Coarse-grained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coarse-grained. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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