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coarsening

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present participle of coarsen

as in vulgarizing

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Having a system that won’t keep up just leads to more issues, like an increase in your energy bills and the risk of wearing out some parts prematurely.

— Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 29 July 2026
Praedico lines up years of track data to give operators a single view of what is wearing out.

— Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

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Along with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, the foundation also partners with schools and community institutions to educate the challenging effects of stereotyping, unconscious bias, and representation imbalance of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and persons with disabilities.

— Carole Horst, Variety, 21 June 2026
In crime coverage, journalists should create equity by being cognizant of correcting any coverage trends that privilege white groups over people of color, especially stereotyping Black and Latino men as violent.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026

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The tools are generating more activity while depleting the capacity for the high-quality thinking that makes that activity valuable.

— Dan Schawbel, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
That included the risk of dangerously depleting the number of defensive interceptor missiles available to the military’s Central Command, which is responsible for operations in the Middle East.

— Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

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At 3x, the Razr+'s image processing tried to save the shot by overexposing the dish, but unfortunately, my dinner just looks like an inedible oil painting with a glossy sheen.

— Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026
Many people damage their nails by picking at their cuticles, for example, or drying them out by overexposing them to water.

— Andee Tagle, NPR, 21 Feb. 2026

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