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Definition of G-ratednext

grated

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verb

past tense of grate
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as in scratched
to pass roughly and noisily over or against a surface the sled grated along the bare pavement

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as in gritted
to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound he grated the pieces of metal together

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Recent Examples of G-rated
Verb
In a large bowl or resealable bag, mix together ¼ cup shiro (white) miso, ¼ cup creamy peanut butter, ¼ cup shoyu (soy sauce), ¼ cup packed light brown sugar, ¼ cup beer, any kind, 3 cloves garlic, minced or grated, and 2 tsp. Sheldon Simeon, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026 Cream cheese, vanilla bean paste, and grated orange zest come together to create this melt-in-your-mouth confection. Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026 Divide grated Gruyere cheese and bacon evenly among muffin cups. Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Apr. 2026 The end of Malone’s 10-year Nuggets tenure was abrupt and awkward, as his voice grew stale in the locker room and his intense personality grated on players, as team and league sources detailed to The Denver Post last year. Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2026 Place grated zucchini in a colander set over a bowl. Laura McLively, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026 Use vegetables not for bulk but as bold flavor flourishes—grated, blitzed, or shaved—to finish off a dish. Chadwick Boyd, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Feb. 2026 The cloud of cream cheese over the top is light as air, weighed down with a heap of Parmesan cheese grated so finely the curls disappear on your tongue. Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for G-rated
Adjective
  • To restore wage mobility and top-line household revenue, organizations need to unfreeze hiring and transition their AI strategies from pure human substitution to human augmentation.
    Katica Roy, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • Consider any positivity that comes from the Oklahoma City series as pure gravy.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
Verb
  • As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the president doesn’t get annoyed with him once or twice.
    NBC news, NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Maybe annoyed enough to fix it.
    Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 26 Apr. 2026
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  • If you have been bitten or scratched by an animal, seek medical attention immediately.
    Dan Raby, CBS News, 6 May 2026
  • Great White became the fifth horse scratched this week and the second Saturday.
    Stephen Whyno, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • But the Olympic debutant gritted her teeth and tried to forget about her throbbing, bruised knee.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The 6-foot-6, 260-pound Westlake graduate missed just one game earlier this season but gritted his way through an undisclosed injury.
    Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 12 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • But this is a kids’ movie, after all, and the brief romantic subplot is entirely chaste.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • There were other stories that bothered him more, like a post by a writer who recounted a chaste one-night stand with Tea Party activist and Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell that described her pubic hair.
    Frank DiGiacomo, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • His last-minute, mixmaster approach to closing out the transit negotiations irritated several participants, but the end result was a fiscally responsible and transformative restructuring of mass transit in northern Illinois.
    David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Even minimal exposure to artificial lights irritated his burns, and recovery took months.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • His father finally scraped together about $30,000 to free him, and three years after his release, Diego started a business leading birding tours.
    Andy Court, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • After all, one line of thinking goes, the big LLMs have already scraped everything available on the web.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Earlier this month, the Kremlin announced that this year’s Victory Day parade, held every May 9th in Red Square to commemorate the Soviet victory in the Second World War, which is typically a show of Russian might, would be a modest, small-scale affair.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • America’s 26th president also inspired the region’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park, which safeguards his modest log cabin and a pristine slice of the northern mixed grass prairie and many of the species Roosevelt would have encountered, including bison, prairie dogs and wild horses.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 8 May 2026

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“G-rated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/G-rated. Accessed 10 May. 2026.

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