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as in brushes
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 grazes
Joe Joyce, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
David Cox, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
As a journalist with a deep interest in our public lands, and a working rancher who grazes his own cattle on BLM ground in the same part of Montana where AP has been acquiring land, McKean is uniquely positioned at the intersection of all this.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
The pop star sits on a kitchen floor, sporting a white turtleneck minidress that barely grazes her upper thigh.
—Hannah Malach, InStyle, 14 Jan. 2026
After someone in the other party fires a potshot that grazes the head of one of Rex’s fiends, another buddy returns fire and kills the original shooter.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2025
Their hemline grazes the top of Chelsea boots, giving you a little pop of color at the bottom of your ’fit to coordinate with jackets, bags, and belts.
—Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
There is even a massage with horses, during which a horse grazes nearby while a massage therapist works out your aches and pains.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
In his article for Mosaic magazine, Israeli computer scientist Moshe Koppel calculates that Sefaria’s digitized library, about a thousand volumes, barely grazes the surface.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
The Los Angeles experience consists mostly of such tangential connections and brief grazes of luxury.
—Joe Joyce, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
People taking anticoagulants can also experience serious bleeds from small cuts or grazes, uncontrolled nosebleeds, blood in the urine and, more rarely, brain hemorrhages or bleeding in the lungs.
—David Cox, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
As a journalist with a deep interest in our public lands, and a working rancher who grazes his own cattle on BLM ground in the same part of Montana where AP has been acquiring land, McKean is uniquely positioned at the intersection of all this.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
The pop star sits on a kitchen floor, sporting a white turtleneck minidress that barely grazes her upper thigh.
—Hannah Malach, InStyle, 14 Jan. 2026
After someone in the other party fires a potshot that grazes the head of one of Rex’s fiends, another buddy returns fire and kills the original shooter.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2025
Their hemline grazes the top of Chelsea boots, giving you a little pop of color at the bottom of your ’fit to coordinate with jackets, bags, and belts.
—Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
There is even a massage with horses, during which a horse grazes nearby while a massage therapist works out your aches and pains.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
In his article for Mosaic magazine, Israeli computer scientist Moshe Koppel calculates that Sefaria’s digitized library, about a thousand volumes, barely grazes the surface.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grazes
bruises
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But Kaszas’ ultimate destiny had nothing to do with inflicting — or receiving — bruises, contusions or broken limbs.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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At right, bruises can be seen on her wrist.—
Michael Kaplan,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Grazes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grazes. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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