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teeth grinding

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noun

Pathology.
  1. habitual, purposeless clenching and grinding of the teeth, especially during sleep.


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The focus of his teeth grinding was Europe's growing energy shock, triggered by the burning conflict in the Middle East and threatening to dominate a summit of European leaders in Brussels on Thursday.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

Scientists also coaxed DNA from the centuries-old skeletons — drilling small samples of bones and teeth, grinding them up into powder, mixing them into a solution and filtering out everything but the human DNA.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2023

I couldn’t even ask Lusk about it because, even from my house on Cape Cod, Mass., I could hear his teeth grinding in Indiana.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2022

For her case in particular, she gets botox done to ease headaches that result from teeth grinding.

From Fox News • Sep. 6, 2020

She lay on the ground, and I saw her pudgy little arms and legs shaking, and her teeth grinding in her head.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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