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 Red flag The Dodgers still don’t know what to reasonably expect from Ohtani, gritting out the postseason despite discomfort in his left knee and right arm. — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 Showed toughness by gritting through ankle and knee injuries in the Final Four and title game. — ABC News, 23 June 2026 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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Finish by gently scraping off the wallpaper with a plastic paint scraper.

— Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 15 Oct. 2026
How so much original music, like Sahunta’s, got caught up in this scraping operation remains unclear.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026

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After grinding to Akon during their belly dancing date, Cam and Aneha find common ground around growing up in low-income families when their parents lost their jobs.

— Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
While the left spent all week whining about Sophie Cunningham's hat and firing squad best practices, us PATRIOTS were biding our time, keeping our heads down, and grinding towards another weekend.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026

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