granular
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That granular data allows decisionmakers to allocate resources and target outreach to the areas with the highest need.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
They want to protect Schoenbrun’s film from the very analysis it’s encouraging, the deep, granular kind that causes all that subtext to fall apart.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
“He’s very, very gifted on a granular level as an actor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The academic literature, he says, differentiates between “sympathy, empathy, compassion, kindness. There are very small, granular differences between each. Empathy itself has 43 different definitions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Without a moon, they see only what the insectile headlamps illuminate: fifteen feet of granular, ice-blue surface, crisscrossed by tire tracks.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
