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Recent Examples of grist
My encounters with dancing baseball players and rotating snow brooms were not grist for the mill of public discussion; this experience was unique to me.
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Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2025
This association has haunted the process of telling Robert’s story, threatening to make of his suffering a narrow allegory, grist for political milling.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
Greeting guests out front is a historic bell that had once hung at Tom’s grandfather’s grist mill in Greenville, Georgia.
—Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 3 Jan. 2025
For Ephron, any experience, no matter how silly or tragic, was grist for the mill.
—Ariela Gittlen, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2025
This association has haunted the process of telling Robert’s story, threatening to make of his suffering a narrow allegory, grist for political milling.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
Greeting guests out front is a historic bell that had once hung at Tom’s grandfather’s grist mill in Greenville, Georgia.
—Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 3 Jan. 2025
For Ephron, any experience, no matter how silly or tragic, was grist for the mill.
—Ariela Gittlen, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grist
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Purchasing some of the many consumer goods imported from China—from toys to machinery parts—is probably one of the few areas customers can buy in bulk to avoid the potentially long-term consequences of these tariffs.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Not quite as much as Victoria Secret’s push-up, but a close second with less bulk to the actual bra.—
Brigitt Earley,
Glamour,
25 Feb. 2025
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This breakdown in the barrier then lets in outside substances and microbes, and the immune system goes wild.—
Alison Escalante,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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In order to accomplish this, there must be a major temperature difference between the substance itself and its environment.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
27 Feb. 2025
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The number of American digital nomads has significantly increased, but successfully merging work and travel requires careful consideration of routine, community building, and time for exploration.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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The committee heavily relies on MaxPreps computer rankings in the section’s new playoff format across all sports, but other criteria such as head-to-head and strength of schedule are also taken into consideration.—
Nathan Canilao,
The Mercury News,
16 Feb. 2025
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The funniest part was that the clause has some basis considering Johnson has been accused of infidelity by other partners, including Rosado.—
Keydra Manns,
Essence,
27 Feb. 2025
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The contractors examined the numbers and locations of each persona on a county-by-county basis.—
Corey G. Johnson,
ProPublica,
27 Feb. 2025
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The full extent of the cuts won't be known until after the Tuesday night deadline for a mass firing largely carried out by email that's likely to dramatically reshape the government's health workforce.—
Adriel Bettelheim,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
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Just a week before our arrival, the Trump administration fired about 1,000 permanent National Park Service workers as part of a mass purging of tens of thousands of federal workers still in the probationary period of their jobs.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2025
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This more upscale two-pronged approach has been a staple of the other locations opened since.—
Larry Olmsted,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Barney & Friends, which was produced from 1992 to 2009, was a childhood staple and introduced viewers to Barney, an imaginary and perpetually optimistic tyrannosaurus rex that teaches lessons about friendship through song and dance.—
Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Feb. 2025
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While the game has changed, Santana believes the fundamentals of the pitch are the same.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
23 Feb. 2025
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Jim Cramer sees the dip as a buying opportunity, given Texas Roadhouse’s quality fundamentals.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
21 Feb. 2025
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Simultaneously, issues with pushing Rust code into the Linux kernel were brewing.—
Kevin Purdy,
Ars Technica,
14 Feb. 2025
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There’s a small kernel of wisdom in what Dallas did, perhaps.—
John Hollinger,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Grist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grist. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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