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The opera company’s summer season featured impressive stagings of Mozart’s ‘Così fan tutte’ and Gregory Spears’s ‘Fellow Travelers,’ as well as grating versions of ‘Oklahoma’ and ‘Madama Butterfly.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Even though I find loudcasting intensely grating, I have never registered an official complaint and have only occasionally asked other passengers to turn the volume down on their device.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

The performance, perhaps intending to inject a note of potential menace, plays up Ru’s anger at the expense of his hurt — and comes off as grating and utterly unsympathetic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The monotony of a corporate job can be grating, but a steady paycheck provides a sense of security.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Christopher watched the two sphinxes carving into the mountain as they approached; the rock gave way to their claws with a high, grating sound.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Traditional spectrometers work by splitting light into its component colors using prisms or gratings, then measuring the intensity of each wavelength.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

He looked through the door and was able to see a grating sitting on top of other gratings - leaving a void with the North Sea below it.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

The particles then traveled through three diffraction gratings generated by ultraviolet laser beams.

From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026

The lamprey ladder at Bonneville is an elaborate chute system with smooth surfaces lamprey can attach to, rounded corners, no gratings and places to rest.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

At one end of the cove, an enormous pileup of wreckage from years of storms provided a steady supply of firewood: block and tackle, hatch gratings, spars, masts, lockers.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong