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If anyone needs a definition for what grinding means in sports, sophomore Carlos Acuna’s performance on Wednesday at Cal State Northridge provided the answer.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
There’s no standard definition of a “carnivore diet,” but it generally means only eating animal-based foods like meat, seafood, eggs and full-fat dairy.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
For nearly two decades, he had been the definition of sports anonymity—an interchangeable cog turning in the unforgiving machine that is professional baseball.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Butterfly Conservation said was most likely caused by ermine moth caterpillars, which feed inside the webs and "are the definition of a hungry caterpillar".
From BBC • May 13, 2026
The same phrase is then employed by Newton in his definition of inertia; he evidently took the phrase from Descartes, and discovered only later that it originated in Lucretius.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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