grating

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By engineering a subwavelength grating, they were able to trap infrared light within a layer only 40 nanometers thick.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

This widens the gap with Grana Padano, a competitor with less stringent production rules, as well as other cheeses meant for grating.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

But what’s particularly grating is that this is not just a strategy to avoid bad reviews for as long as possible.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

"There's a grating that keeps getting covered in leaves and branches, it's never getting emptied so water comes over the top and just floods straight through."

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

Nor was it unwarranted: in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding lock, warned me my watch was relieved.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë