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ordered a meatball grinder from the beach's concession stand
Recent Examples of grinder from the Web
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Despite the White House’s attempt to force the Russia issue into its industrial-strength reality meat grinder, there is no longer any doubt as to whether there was collusion in the 2016 election.
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Standing near large grinders that tower over employees, Heiss explains that gypsum is ground into finer particles as part of the production process.
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Or pulse them a few times in a clean coffee grinder.
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Bleh has invested in a new grinder, tripled the size of his smokehouse and bought an expensive hot dog skinner.
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It wasn’t twisted or taken out of context or fed into the Internet meat grinder where one of America’s more progressive athletes can be turned into Archie Bunker.
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To reach its goal, the festival featured waste reclamation stations with four kinds of receptacles, including a food grinder that helped generate material for an organic fertilizer.
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An influx of athleticism wouldn’t hurt either as Father Time catches up with the enduring grit-n-grinders.
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These measured the strain and calculated the power output of the stationary bikes that had replaced the old hand grinders, which generate the power to move the sails.
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First Known Use of grinder
14th century
GRINDER Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of grinder for English Language Learners
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: a person or thing that grinds something
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