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grated

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verb

past tense of grate
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as in scratched
to pass roughly and noisily over or against a surface the sled grated along the bare pavement

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as in gritted
to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound he grated the pieces of metal together

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for G-rated
Adjective
  • Perhaps the truth, however, is that Emmanuel-Thomas, in pure sporting terms, has always been something of a puzzle.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 6 June 2025
  • Vionic Uptown Loafer The Vionic Uptown Loafers look like pure business on the upper, but the sole offers all the comfort and flexibility of a sneaker.
    Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • Not seeing his name on the list should have annoyed him.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • While typically a crowd at a concert might have been annoyed that the performer stopped the show to have a chat with a fan, the audience couldn’t have been more supportive and receptive.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • When Myers was 16 years old, Gilles Bouchard scratched his head with what to do with him.
    Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Holding out hope for a big win, the woman bought a third ticket and scratched it in her car, according to the release.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In Zone 6, chaste tree will die back to the ground in the winter and vigorously regrow in spring to a 5 or 6-foot shrub.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 28 May 2025
  • Our Lady was chaste, willingly, willfully passive, untainted by the grottiness of ordinary life.
    Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 6 May 2025
Verb
  • These models are trained on vast, unlicensed datasets scraped from internet and music platforms.
    Virginie Berger, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • However, Large Language Models have scraped most of the data that is easily available Expect 2025 to show increasing efforts to obtain data, whether these are business contracts to acquire data, labeling systems to curate yet-untapped data, deploying more sensors, and so on.
    Nisha Talagala, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • His tombstone was flat and modest; people had left bouquets and stones.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • My social media agency started with modest goals that seemed sensible for a new entrepreneur.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Verb
  • With the exception of the Russell 2000, which gained 1%, none of the major indices bothered to get out of bed the day after Christmas.
    JJ Kinahan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • In fact, if you can’t be bothered even to reach for the remote to select this new button, the latest firmware update will also automatically start playing the next episode after a countdown.
    John Archer, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Last summer, Walmart grounded drones in Salt Lake City, Tampa and Phoenix, citing a desire to hone in on the Dallas-Forth Worth metro area.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 6 June 2025
  • After another ball, Yelich grounded a ball up the middle that would have scored Chourio had second baseman Jake Cronenworth not ran into the grass to backhand the ball.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
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“G-rated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/G-rated. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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