: sprinkled or streaked with gray : graying
a grizzled beard
also
: having gray hair
a grizzled veteran
Examples of grizzled in a Sentence
He had thinning hair and a grizzled beard.
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Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
Similar to how a grizzled SysOps engineer could spend days working to reduce CPU usage, LLMs can be used to analyze profiles and recommend changes to conserve CPU and memory—saving significant time and resources.
—Tom Wilkie, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
His cheeks were hollow, and a grizzled beard, which hadn’t seen a proper shave in weeks, made his face look older and all the more haggard.
—Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Playing either offensive tackle spot is one of the toughest jobs in football, even for a grizzled veteran.
—Mike Defabo, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
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grizzled
adjective
griz·zled
ˈgriz-əld 
: sprinkled, streaked, or mixed with gray
a grizzled beard
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