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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 Synonyms for G-rated
Adjective
  • Citing the Base Realignment and Closure commission example is pure illusion.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2025
  • But given that season 2 is yet to be confirmed, this is pure speculation.
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 23 July 2025
Verb
  • Not seeing his name on the list should have annoyed him.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • While typically a crowd at a concert might have been annoyed that the performer stopped the show to have a chat with a fan, the audience couldn’t have been more supportive and receptive.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • When Myers was 16 years old, Gilles Bouchard scratched his head with what to do with him.
    Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Holding out hope for a big win, the woman bought a third ticket and scratched it in her car, according to the release.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • There she was scolded by the nutritionally chaste household for drinking coffee and wearing leather gloves.
    James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • In Zone 6, chaste tree may die back to the ground in winter but resprouts in the following growing season.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 10 June 2025
Verb
  • These models are trained on vast, unlicensed datasets scraped from internet and music platforms.
    Virginie Berger, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • However, Large Language Models have scraped most of the data that is easily available Expect 2025 to show increasing efforts to obtain data, whether these are business contracts to acquire data, labeling systems to curate yet-untapped data, deploying more sensors, and so on.
    Nisha Talagala, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • There is typically a seasonal decline in beef prices as grilling season slows down into the fall, but those price declines are likely to be modest.
    Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
  • In fact, some are surprisingly modest — small, functional gas stations not so different from your neighborhood Exxon.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 17 July 2025
Verb
  • With the exception of the Russell 2000, which gained 1%, none of the major indices bothered to get out of bed the day after Christmas.
    JJ Kinahan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • In fact, if you can’t be bothered even to reach for the remote to select this new button, the latest firmware update will also automatically start playing the next episode after a countdown.
    John Archer, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The actor appeared to have been trying to ground himself, while Kirby, who has also been filmed initiating some of the physical contact herself, has only spoken positively about Pascal and has not indicated any discomfort with his actions.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 July 2025
  • These activities not only provide the benefits of solitude but also help in grounding you in the present moment, further relaxing the brain.
    Joseph Jebelli, CNBC, 23 July 2025
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“G-rated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/G-rated. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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