1
as in speck
a very small piece
just give me a grain of information about what to expect on the program
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as in temper
one's characteristic attitude or mood
cheating, even on my income taxes, goes against my grain
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Recent Examples of grain
Popcorn is also a whole grain, containing fiber that helps slow digestion and triggers mild hormonal satiety signals.
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Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 3 Apr. 2026
In decades gone by, this was a working grain mill and silo, towering 112 feet above the train depot across the tracks with the small downtown just beyond.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
These are often made with multiple cereal grains in addition to the traditional barley, giving them more complexity.
—Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2026
That's because, unlike grain, fresh produce requires energy to refrigerate in both storage and transport, and energy prices are spiking now.
—Garrett Downs, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026
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Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 3 Apr. 2026
In decades gone by, this was a working grain mill and silo, towering 112 feet above the train depot across the tracks with the small downtown just beyond.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
These are often made with multiple cereal grains in addition to the traditional barley, giving them more complexity.
—Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2026
That's because, unlike grain, fresh produce requires energy to refrigerate in both storage and transport, and energy prices are spiking now.
—Garrett Downs, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grain
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What emerged was an omelet of ideal and epitomic shape—straight, proudly puffed, about six and a half inches long and two and a half inches wide, with squarish ends and neither a speck nor drop of oil or liquid egg anywhere around.—
Jeffrey Steingarten,
Vogue,
5 Apr. 2026
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Is that oblong speck an egg sac or a flake of dandruff?—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
30 Mar. 2026
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The President is, after all, known for his volatile temper and for holding grudges.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
6 Apr. 2026
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Hurley is obviously more well-known than Underwood after back-to-back titles at UConn in 2023 and 2024, and his temper tantrums with officials are legendary.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Its design, crafted by Russell Sage Studio, is meant to be an on-the-nose reflection of the distillery's famed product, with bronzy walls the color of its single malt, and a ceiling painted to look like barley, reflecting the morning dew with flecks of gold throughout.—
Alessandra Amodio,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Apr. 2026
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Berber carpet Berber is a type of loop pile carpet with flecks of color.—
Faith Wakefield,
USA Today,
12 Mar. 2026
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Personal Brand – The differences in temperament and tactics are stark.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
8 Apr. 2026
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Some research has indicated that parenting styles are influenced by parental personality traits, the child's temperament, social support, and partner satisfaction.—
Kelley King Heyworth,
Parents,
5 Apr. 2026
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When the crew retracted the drill to replace its bit, an overpowering jet of oil fountained from the well.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Young Alfred Tennyson grew up in a similarly provincial bit of England, tucked away in his father’s vicarage on a remote part of the east coast of England in a village of fewer than a hundred souls.—
Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Miller’s 1968 play, written during the agonizing days of the Vietnam War, concerns the disposition of the remains of a once-illustrious estate.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Day argues that Iran hawks display a dangerous ideological disposition.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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In the late 1990s, when physicists unexpectedly discovered that neutrinos have mass, Thierry Lasserre abandoned cosmology to go all in on the particles.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Apr. 2026
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Subatomic particles, gravity wells and the beginning of the universe – these are difficult and mysterious concepts that are better understood with storytelling and metaphor.—
Regina G. Barber,
NPR,
8 Apr. 2026
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As Merlin learned how to use the pre-recorded buttons, audiences fell in love with the then-tiny pig’s big attitude.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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The movement language expresses attitude, with its amalgam of hip-hop, jazz, ballet, Korean traditional dance and musical theater.—
Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Grain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grain. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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