grist
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Any reaction or any impact on you — financial or emotional — is grist for the mill.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
I’m not looking for a bot to remove the grist of plotting out and writing something good.
From Slate ● May 24, 2026
The unearthing in 2018 of a charcoal inscription at Pompeii featuring a date in October has been grist to the mill of those who seek to push the eruption beyond August.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Efforts to make real Hollywood-style movies resulted in comically bad failures like “Lady Ballers,” which probably made more money for the content creators who used it as grist for their mockery mill.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
But you’ve got to have grist before you can grind; and there was no more for the new mill to do than for the old.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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