chaff
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One drone can release chaff to hide another or create enough confusion for a strike package to get through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
It will help separate the mathematical wheat from the chaff.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
“Our sense remains that the core of the AI thesis remains intact and would probably survive a continued separating of the wheat from the chaff in the frothier parts of the equity market.”
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025
It's more about whether you actually believe in something — and boy, oh boy, has the wheat been separated from the chaff in that respect.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025
Together we have made pallets of cane chaff and leaves.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
“One American can relish hugely the entertainment afforded when one quizzical Englishman chaffs his shy, ineloquent countrymen without expecting all other Americans to shake with laughter at the same spectacle,” Woollcott wrote.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2014
He snarls as well as chaffs at a world with the gout.
From Time Magazine Archive
They will be civil enough," she went on, hurriedly, "and as everybody chaffs so much nowadays they will, perhaps, never be found out.
From The Marriage of Elinor by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
He stands it from me and only chaffs.
From Elizabeth's Campaign by Mrs. Humphry Ward
So he goes out with the young fellows, and all the way to the place where they are to fight, he chaffs and badgers them.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
“A scandal with all the potential ramifications of Watergate, but where everyone involved is stupid and bad at everything,” Oliver chaffed on his weekly late-night satirical show.
From Washington Times ● May 1, 2023
These are a godsend for my inner thighs on long, sweaty summer runs, when they otherwise become a red chaffed mess.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2019
Congress stepped forward with enormous aid packages in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, though some GOP conservatives — including then-Indiana Rep. Pence — chaffed at the price tag.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2017
Backstrom chaffed at Presidents' Trophy talk late last season after winning it in 2009 preceded a first-round exit.
From US News ● Oct. 3, 2016
Years in Scotland and the United States had left their stamp on me, and my family and old friends chaffed me about being an "outlander," telling me that now I was an American.
From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil
It causes less chaffing than other bras I’ve owned, too.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2019
And it works very well to help prevent chaffing, too.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2019
I walked and ran through the heat of my chaffing toes and the cold of my shredded heels.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2018
At one point Mr Fucarile stops the interview - his new prosthetic leg is chaffing, and he is beginning to blister.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2014
Rondon kept his temper under control but made the chaffing remark, “Well, you have had a splendid bath, eh?”
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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