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coarse

[kawrs, kohrs] / kɔrs, koʊrs /




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County prosecutor, accused Hochman of contradicting himself, questioning the D.A.’s efforts to justify the officers’ coarse language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

On the other goes a coarse, olive-bar-inspired romesco made with jarred roasted peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, salted roasted almonds and smoked paprika.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

You sort the people you meet often into fine categories; the rest get lumped into coarse blocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

They detected sharp, short-lived increases in both coarse and fine airborne particles throughout the event.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 4, 2026

I was envious of her hair because mine was coarse and harder to maintain.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Concentrations of coarser particles, which are also linked to respiratory illness, exceeded Kosovo's daily legal limit on 16 days.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Unlike Maricopa Highway 33, Hudson Ranch Road features coarser asphalt, no guardrails and more passing zones than turnouts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

The ad itself uses coarser language and has given rise to awkwardness: “That makes the LGBTQ+ community think, ‘Oh, Spencer,’ and Heidi, my wife, is a huge gay icon.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Instead of chasing smoothness, I embraced the coarser texture of cornmeal, letting it resist cohesion.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

It’s brighter and coarser than regular glitter, as if it was made with crushed jewels.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Hershey assumes Mounds consumers crave coconut meat at its coarsest and its exfoliating benefits for the digestive tract.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022

The first time you sharpen a blade, you use the coarsest setting first to establish a completely new bevel.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018

Areas closest to the river and its branches rose the highest in elevation, because they got the most doses of the coarsest sediment.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 3, 2018

And by the way, do you like my fashionable new hairshirt, made with only the coarsest of goat hair?

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2016

The visitor was a stout man in cracked, mud-caked boots and a heavy brown robe of the coarsest roughspun, his features hidden by a cowl, his hands drawn up into voluminous sleeves.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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