grit
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To those who view Wilder’s stories as true examples of American self-determination and singular grit, that may read as sacrilege.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
It's an in-your-face marriage of Western grit, rodeo and military strength.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
“But I think that’s also where I built this armor that I have — this knowingness of why I do what I do. It’s how I have this grit to stick to it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Our children may need the grit and guts of the pioneers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
I grit my teeth, and a tear falls inside my visor.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Ms. Lakshmi serves it on a bed of traditional Southern cheesy grits and suggests chowchow pickles, an old-time relish, as a side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
One of my favorite lazy breakfasts, picked up from childhood summers in the Carolinas, was a bowl of cheesy grits topped with tomato gravy and a lush, freshly burst egg yolk.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2025
During the festival, food available on site includes crawfish bread, pecan catfish meuniere and catfish almondine, cochon de lait and turducken po-boys, boudin, crawfish étouffée, jambalaya, crawfish Monica and shrimp and grits.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
He married those influences with a deep love for South Carolina Lowcountry cuisine like shrimp and grits, fried fish and hoppin’ John.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
She makes us a big pot of buttery grits with shrimp.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
And unlike past editions when they often gritted their teeth and only eked through, they’ve done it this time with a game to spare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
"I gritted my teeth on everything," Naumov said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 11, 2026
Not performatively fun, not “I’m smiling through gritted teeth” fun, but genuinely pleasurable, in that way long projects can feel when the rhythm carries you.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2025
Bradford Council has gritted the main roads but has still advised people to drive with caution.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
I closed my eyes and gritted my teeth as I reached back under the bank and got hold of a monkey.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Liu said he was "gritting my teeth and holding on" -- and hoping that the government helped to "stabilise the currency".
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
I was headlining at an age where most of the people around me were still gritting it out in clubs and you’re alone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
She ate well, gritting her teeth as she slowly worked her way up from a few daily steps to a two-hour mile, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
The freeze coincided with hazardous road conditions after strike action led to limited gritting.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2024
“Completely,” Magdalys said, gritting her teeth behind pursed lips.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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