coarse
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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
India's main summer crops include rice, pulses, coarse cereals, oilseeds, cotton, sugarcane and jute.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The new surface isn’t plastic like a typical pool lining, which is easier to cut, but is more like a coarse coat of paint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
On its third rising only a portion of the drawing-room was disclosed; the rest being concealed by a screen, hung with some sort of dark and coarse drapery.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
They’re small, the colors are garish, and they’re coarser in feeling than the work for which he is best known.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
Less electricity was produced when coffee had a higher internal moisture content and when coffee was ground at a coarser setting.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2023
That allowed the model to simulate the fine-scale atmospheric processes that give rise to clouds, which in coarser models have to be estimated.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 16, 2023
He has heard Laura in the living room speaking with two men, one of them with a ripply, tricky voice, the other with a coarser voice, a thicker laugh, a big man, no doubt.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Hershey assumes Mounds consumers crave coconut meat at its coarsest and its exfoliating benefits for the digestive tract.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022
If you have multiple files, work from coarsest to finest, just like sanding a table.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2022
Justice Stephen G. Breyer was particularly concerned about whether racial slurs and the coarsest of words have a lingering effect.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2019
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
So on that day, Wu Tsing, fearful of my mother’s vengeful spirit, wore the coarsest of white cotton mourning clothes.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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