coarse
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A stadium takes the coarse block and, for a few hours, forces the finer sort my model said was missing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
India's main summer crops include rice, pulses, coarse cereals, oilseeds, cotton, sugarcane and jute.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
During the hottest hours, many retreat to makeshift huts -- frames of sticks draped with coarse homespun cloth, plastered with wild donkey dung.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
Under normal conditions, turbidites show a consistent pattern, with coarse material settling at the bottom and finer sediment layering on top.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026
“And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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
The scope of SinoProbe II—successor to SinoProbe I, a coarser survey that ran from 2008–16—“is mind-boggling,” says Larry Brown, a geophysicist at Cornell University.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 17, 2024
His analysis showed that the CONUS404 simulations were reliably capturing straight-line winds, as opposed to previous, coarser simulations that failed to capture many such events.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023
Then she made him two everyday hats of the coarser, widest braid.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Hershey assumes Mounds consumers crave coconut meat at its coarsest and its exfoliating benefits for the digestive tract.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022
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
Jeffrey Harmon says the concept was inspired by something he’d noticed as a missionary in Ireland: upper-crust accents refine the coarsest jokes.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2016
One is that when you run iPhone apps on the Mini, it uses the coarsest version of the graphics for that app - the version designed for iPhones up to the 2009 model, the 3GS.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2012
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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