Thesaurus results for COMMINUTING

comminuting

verb

present participle of comminute

as in grinding

to reduce to fine particles eons of incessant pounding by the waves have comminuted the once-rocky shoreline into a bed of fine-grained sand

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Early in-person voting opened Friday in Virginia and other states, launching a six-week sprint that will decide control of Congress amid a grinding Iran war and soaring living costs.

— Ali Swenson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
The staff was washing meat cutting and grinding equipment and skipping the sanitizer step.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026

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Oakley and Reid lean so heavily into Elinor and Marianne’s crushing disappointments and the forces holding them back in a period of vast gender inequity, that their sorrows shove the characters’ more captivating qualities to the side.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
Merz quashed talk within the press and his own party about his possible resignation despite Sunday's losses for his party just two weeks after a crushing defeat in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

— Esme Nicholson, NPR, 21 Sep. 2026

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The deaths came amid late-season monsoon storms pounding the Navajo Nation, damaging roads, inundating remote communities and prompting a state of emergency.

— Jessica Hill, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
With styles rooted in Texas, Kansas City, North Carolina and Memphis, barbecue often elicits table-pounding opinions.

— Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 14 Sep. 2026

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Nigeria is on track to complete a 90,000 km fiber optic cable network in three years, a government minister said, beating an initial timeline for the project backed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
OpenAI earlier this month released GPT-6 Astra, which has sometimes been modestly beating Opus 5 in benchmarks and user sentiment.

— Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026

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