Thesaurus results for GRITTING

gritting

verb

present participle of grit

as in scraping

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 gritting When my grandchildren were around recently, Marie was gritting her teeth because her nerves were so frayed. —

Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 7 June 2026 The director, a graduate of the AFI conservatory, spent two summers growing up gritting his teeth at an all-boys sleepaway sports camp. —

Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025 Bob Donnan / Imagn Images North Carolina and head coach Bill Belichick picked up a second straight ACC win on Saturday, gritting to a 20-15 victory over Stanford in Chapel Hill. —

Justin Williams, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025

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This is an album in which harsh, scraping sounds make sweet vocal melodies sound even sweeter, where that kindness of spirit may flicker but never quite fades away.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 1 June 2026
Traditional screen-scraping automation is inherently fragile, breaking with every UI change or system patch, increasing risk and cost while limiting scale.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026