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“Like some Charo of the Chugach, Palin grinds out the same quips and winks and seems even less prepared for 2012, in any capacity, than she did in 2008.”
The Huffington Post: Alec Baldwin: Harry Reid, Sharron Angle, and the Role of Government in America
“Behind those ollies and grinds is the razor-sharp business sense of a restless entrepreneur.”
“Minus: Cleaning out the grinds was a bit of a hassle, though this was true for most of the grinders.”
“And to his credit it should be recorded that the grinds were the only ones he treated with any seriousness; he took pains to answer their questions; but towards the rest of us, the Chosen, he showed a thinly veiled contempt.”
“He said consumer confidence in Toyota will continue to falter as the recall grinds on.”
“Health officials in Denmark and the Faroe Islands have already recommended that consumption of pilot whale meat taken in the notorious "grinds" not be eaten due to high levels of contaminants in the meat.”
The Huffington Post: Hardy Jones: What Will End the Dolphin Slaughter?
“Activision Publishing took the wraps off a new skateboarding title, Tony Hawk: Ride, revealing that for the first time in the series players will be able to pull off tricks, such as grinds and ollies, by stepping on a motion-sensing skateboard controller.”
Take this, Tony Hawk. New game peripheral on ‘board’ | Sync Blog
“The company's "Let Me Play: Reuse-A-Shoe program" then picks up your shoes and "grinds" them into a new pair.”
“There was an anti-intellectualism in the student body that astonished me, a lack of interest in all but the most famous speakers or performers, and — the terms truly were used — a contempt by those pleased by "gentlemen's Cs" for those "grinds" who studied long hours or with enthusiasm.”
“Some makers will buy already-forged steel and then grind it to shape, hence the tags "grinds" or "forges" when speaking of knifemakers.”
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Irish English that's not in American ...
Well-known phrases in Irish English that aren't understood in American English.
or next offer, hoover, plaster, soother, chimnea, craic, bits and bobs, grinds, jumper, mum, chancer, ticks all the boxes and 60 more...
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jodi IrE; for AmE use tutoring Apr 3, 2011