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to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
the kind of person who wouldn't be happy if she didn't have something to grizzle about
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Recent Examples of grizzled
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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Adjective
While the older Oath Keepers had demurred at his most sensitive questions recently, the teenager seemed eager to impress a grizzled survival instructor.
—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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grizzled
Adjective
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The 1922 German expressionist film cribbed the plot of Stoker’s Dracula (with some alterations) and created the first horror-movie masterpiece, conjuring a unique take on one of the genre’s hoariest texts.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
24 Dec. 2024
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Scarpa also wrote Scott’s J. Paul Getty fictionalization All the Money in the World, Napoleon, and the military-power allegory The Last Castle, but timely political coincidences sustain this otherwise hoary tale.—
Armond White,
National Review,
6 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The companies have complained about a lack of due process throughout the review.—
Jeff Stein AND David J. Lynch The Washington Post,
arkansasonline.com,
4 Jan. 2025
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The year before, the prison had been the site of two back-to-back riots in which inmates had burned mattresses to protest inadequate medical care and the persistent use of solitary confinement to punish prisoners who complained.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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During cold weather the moisture precipitates out of the air onto every branch and willow bush, coating them in a layer of hoar frost.—
Seth Adams,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 May 2023
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Surface hoar is created when water vapor is deposited on the snow surface, like dew.—
Lisa M. Krieger,
The Mercury News,
18 Jan. 2024
Adjective
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On that sandy beach a decade ago, those men may have witnessed God’s holy army and the forces of Satan in their ancient battle.—
Lauren Green,
Fox News,
16 Feb. 2025
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The city and surrounding communities are also lined with sandy beaches and board-ready breaks.—
Paul Brady,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Polley and cinematographer Luc Montpellier shoot the story in a muted palette, not quite sepia but not quite color either, reflecting the limited world of its characters.—
Lindsey Bahr,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2023
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The harsh, desaturated look of Luc Montpellier’s cinematography — not quite black-and-white, not quite sepia — establishes an ambiance of persistent, disorienting unreality.—
Justin ChangFilm Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes,
14 Feb. 2023
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The only racial group that saw a decrease in suicide rates across age cohorts was non-Hispanic white people.—
Ellen Barry,
BostonGlobe.com,
11 Feb. 2023
Verb
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Nick Saban never grumbled when his coaches moved up to coordinators or were hired away to become head coaches for other teams.—
Edward Tuorinsky,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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Children grumbled in their homes.—
Margaux Laskey,
New York Times,
21 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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His skin, particularly his face, had an ashen appearance.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
10 Jan. 2025
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Metal railings or a charred brick chimney were all that remained to distinguish the ashen piles.—
Connor Sheets,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Grizzled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grizzled. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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