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as in brushed
to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing
the volleyball just grazed my face, so I'm okay
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Recent Examples of grazed
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Before accepting the award for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist award, Cardi kicked off a performance in voluminous bright red curls, which grazed her collarbone and fanned around her face.
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Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
29 June 2026
Antonacci has twice been challenged by opponents — unsuccessfully — on balls that merely grazed his jersey.
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Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
19 June 2026
But another pierced the car’s windshield, grazed the steering wheel and one of Fahd’s fingers before striking his son, Sam, in the head.
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Jeremy Diamond,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
China is building some of the world’s largest solar farms on the Tibetan Plateau, where nomadic people have grazed herds of animals for millennia.
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Sanggay Tashi,
The Conversation,
11 June 2026
According to the Taylor Grazing Act, these private properties were intended to winter the same number of livestock that grazed the public range during the grass-growing months and were used to pre-qualify BLM leasees.
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Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
10 June 2026
My spacious room looked out over a meadow where sheep grazed in the diffuse afternoon light.
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David Amsden,
Travel + Leisure,
10 June 2026
The driver and passenger, who was grazed by a bullet, were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital.
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Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2026
Verb
Bison have not grazed the Highlands Ranch Backcountry Wilderness Area for over 150 years, the Highlands Ranch Community Association said in an announcement on Monday.
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Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Before accepting the award for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist award, Cardi kicked off a performance in voluminous bright red curls, which grazed her collarbone and fanned around her face.
—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
29 June 2026
Antonacci has twice been challenged by opponents — unsuccessfully — on balls that merely grazed his jersey.
—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
19 June 2026
But another pierced the car’s windshield, grazed the steering wheel and one of Fahd’s fingers before striking his son, Sam, in the head.
—
Jeremy Diamond,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
China is building some of the world’s largest solar farms on the Tibetan Plateau, where nomadic people have grazed herds of animals for millennia.
—
Sanggay Tashi,
The Conversation,
11 June 2026
According to the Taylor Grazing Act, these private properties were intended to winter the same number of livestock that grazed the public range during the grass-growing months and were used to pre-qualify BLM leasees.
—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
10 June 2026
My spacious room looked out over a meadow where sheep grazed in the diffuse afternoon light.
—
David Amsden,
Travel + Leisure,
10 June 2026
The driver and passenger, who was grazed by a bullet, were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital.
—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grazed
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Whole hogs, widely available and suitable for slow, open-fire cooking that fed large communal gatherings, became central to the area’s emerging cuisine.
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After each cleaning session, the larvae were fed fruit or vegetable peels, since feeding only on flesh can prevent the superworms from molting or even hasten their death.
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Language models consume trillions of tokens scraped from the web.
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Her bare and scraped-up leg hung out from mid-thigh.
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The aisles were so choked that blooms and branches brushed against us, the air heady with the scent of lilies, roses, eucalyptus, and sweet decay.
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Musk has brushed off the idea of creating a phone in the past, but didn’t rule it out completely.
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As the ocean breeze kicked up, the palms rustled around us.
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The tremors from Old Trafford also rustled the papers on the desk of Napoli’s sporting director Giovanni Manna.
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The Shawano-Menominee Counties Health Department advised anyone bitten or scratched by a bat or other wild animal to promptly clean the wound with soap and water, then contact a physician or go to the emergency room.
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Casey Schmitt was scratched from Sunday’s starting lineup due to an illness, but entered the game for the ailing Adames.
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Red Beard knelt alongside a pig, kissed the top of its head, and gave it a hug.
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His teammates kissed the top of his head as the fans celebrated.
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On one day in late December, Eden barely ate all day.
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While neither is an effective big league pitcher at this point, those moves ate into the Yankees’ limited rotation depth.
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“Grazed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grazed. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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