Grain and Sort

Grain

Grain noun - A very small piece.

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Sort and grain are semantically related In some cases you can use "Sort" instead a noun "Grain".

Nearby Words: grained, grainy, graining

Sort noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

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Grain and sort are semantically related in description topic. Sometimes you can use "Grain" instead a noun "Sort".

Nearby Words: sorted, sorting, sorter

special	special grain	special sort
best	best grain	best sort
particular	particular grain	particular sort
common	common grain	common sort
Other adjectives: certain, big, general, magical.

The aliens, instead of giving up, sort through the rubble (described as a beach, each grain of sand being a memory) for months.

Source: Battle in the Center of the Mind
The most common versions of this sort of fandom, of course, (and immensely more popular than the hard-core versions) are those which take this sort of hypothesis as speculation, albeit with a grain of salt.

Source: Daydream Believer
Investigation Held By Kolobki is somewhere in the middle - it's bright and sunny, but very detailed, diaplidated to an extent with things like broken statues and cracked stucco on buildings, and has wavy object/character outlines along with sort of a film grain effect over the scenes.

Source: Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty

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