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Chafed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Chafe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Single New Yorkers have long chafed at the bad maths that means they're sometimes paying twice the rent their coupled-up friends pay; couples can pool their resources and get a nicer place.
  • (2) Posterior iris chafing by the loop or the optic portion of sulcusfixated posterior chamber lens implants may cause a spectrum of disorders that include iris-pigment epithelial "window defects," pigment dispersion with or without elevation of intraocular pressure, intermittent microhyphemas with transient visual obscurations, and the UGH syndrome.
  • (3) Warren, a vocal advocate for economic fairness and Wall Street reform, has notably refrained from endorsing former secretary of state Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee or former Virginia senator Jim Webb.
  • (4) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
  • (5) All eyes will be watching closely as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee spar over the economy, environment, foreign policy, labor rights, and more.
  • (6) What revolution worth its salt can be fuelled by demands of freedom and dignity and not have gender nestled in its beating heart – especially in a country replete with misogyny, religious fundamentalism (of both the Islamic and Christian kind) and which for 60 years has chafed under a hybrid of military-police rule?
  • (7) The son of long-time Republican senator John Chafee, Lincoln Chafee worked as a blacksmith at harness-racing tracks and served as mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, before he was appointed to the US Senate in 1999, after his father’s death.
  • (8) Another Democratic presidential candidate, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee, also appeared to refer to Clinton, telling the DNC: “After 30 years in public service, I’ve had no scandals.
  • (9) The implantation site has been relocated to reduce chafing by clothing and the post-operative wound dressing technique has been altered to minimise catheter movement.
  • (10) The son of longtime Rhode Island Republican senator John Chafee, the presidential candidate’s biography brags that he “attended Montana State University horse shoeing school in Bozeman and worked as a farrier at harness racing tracks for seven years”.
  • (11) Of the other candidates for the Democratic nomination, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley (3%), former Virginia senator and Reagan navy secretary Jim Webb (2%) and former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee (1%) all scored less than “uncommitted” (6%) and “not sure” (8%).
  • (12) There are long-running tensions between the state and the large Uighur Muslim population, with many in the community chafing at cultural and religious restrictions and some aspiring to independence.
  • (13) Major figures in Erbil have chafed at gains made by their Syrian neighbours, particularly during the battle for the Yazidi centre of Sinjar , and responses have included cutting back access to the region across the mutual border.
  • (14) Sample lyric: “It’s barbaric but hey, it’s home.” Most potential for chafing Facebook Twitter Pinterest Steven Pasquale and Kelli O'Hara in The Bridges of Madison County.
  • (15) Having chafed for years at their own tradition being denied a hearing, they should resist the temptation to turn the tables.
  • (16) This progressive loss may be related to chronic uveitis from iris chafing by the implant or to direct mechanical damage to the corneal endothelium.
  • (17) You certainly could make the case that that might have led to a different outcome – it might have hastened the departure of President Assad, but it also would have subjected the United States to a whole host of more significant risks, including more significant outlays of funds to fund essentially a war in Syria .” Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island governor who is polling below 1% in the Democratic race, said the US “unfortunately bears a great deal of responsibility for the refugee crisis because of our invasion of Iraq and the spread of chaos in the region as a result”.
  • (18) O’Malley, with 0.8%, trailed the former navy secretary and Virginia senator Jim Webb (1.3%) but was in front of the former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee , who had 0.3%.
  • (19) After the early exit of no-hopers Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb, Hillary Clinton is running against three remaining opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 : Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley and herself.
  • (20) Beijing loyalists in Hong Kong’s legislature will say, ‘We need to protect the integrity of the motherland, you’re not allowed to say things like ‘Hong Kong is not China.’’ They worry these sentiments will spread to places like Tibet and Xinjiang, western Chinese provinces with large populations of ethnic minorities and a history of chafing under Beijing’s yoke.

Chafer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who chafes.
  • (n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan.
  • (n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study was made of certain cations present in hemolymph and alimentary tract tissues of healthy and diseased European chafer larvae and the spores of Bacillus popilliae collected from diseased hemolymph.

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