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as in brushes
to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing
the volleyball just grazed my face, so I'm okay
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Recent Examples of grazes
Joe Joyce, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
The Los Angeles experience consists mostly of such tangential connections and brief grazes of luxury.
—Joe Joyce, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
In his article for Mosaic magazine, Israeli computer scientist Moshe Koppel calculates that Sefaria’s digitized library, about a thousand volumes, barely grazes the surface.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grazes
bruises
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Fans also showed screenshots where her limbs appeared to have bruises, scratches, or small wounds.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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Falling Getting hit by a person or object Some people are more likely to get bruises.—
Marisa Garshick,
Verywell Health,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Grazes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grazes. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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