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Their second EP, Beautiful Chaos, peaked at number two in the US album charts, thanks to the gratingly brilliant lead single, Gnarly, and the Charli XCX-penned follow-up, Gabriella.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

It's an audio format, so the listener gets to hear his father talk about all this, and what's striking is how gratingly arrogant his dad is.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2025

Despite often being lumped together these days in what gratingly gets called the “wellness sector,” psychotherapy and Buddhist meditation might be seen as almost opposite approaches to the search for peace of mind.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2022

It’s a gratingly uncool and reactive cut-up of an effortlessly cool and timeless work, albeit seemingly deliberately so.

From The Verge • Dec. 21, 2021

It had curled gratingly around the end of the truck and, still spinning and sliding, was about to collide with me again.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer