as in scraped
to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound
the crash victim gritted his teeth as a way of coping with the pain
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Recent Examples of gritted
The 6-foot-6, 260-pound Westlake graduate missed just one game earlier this season but gritted his way through an undisclosed injury.
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Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 12 Nov. 2025
The Carolina Panthers gritted out a 13-6 win over the New York Jets on the road thanks to a two-interception day from Jaycee Horn, a turnover-free performance from the offense and a close-to-flawless day on special teams.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2025
Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 12 Nov. 2025
The Carolina Panthers gritted out a 13-6 win over the New York Jets on the road thanks to a two-interception day from Jaycee Horn, a turnover-free performance from the offense and a close-to-flawless day on special teams.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gritted
scraped
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Unlike other models on the market that are fed large datasets scraped from the internet, Firefly Foundry models — which are being marketed to businesses as opposed to regular consumers — are unique to each of Adobe’s clients and only trained on IP that clients own the rights to.—
Charles Pulliam-Moore,
The Verge,
22 Jan. 2026
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Training data for the models is often a messy patchwork assembled from millions of sources, much of it scraped from the open web.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Gritted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gritted. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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