How to Use granular in a Sentence

granular

adjective
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  • In a sport where teams chase the smallest and most granular edges, the sheer luck of a coin provides a colossal one.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Which now lets users know, in granular detail, what data an app is collecting from them.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The more granular the data, the better your analysis will be.
    — Nacho De Marco, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • The green book is a sort of more granular distillation of the revenue proposals.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • In fact, so much has already been revealed that the leaks are getting to be almost comically granular.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 May 2022
  • Apple also hasn’t provided granular data on time spent streaming its content.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Overall, the more granular or detailed the data, the more precise and accurate analytics can be performed.
    — Prashanth Southekal, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In a huge space like the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center, not everyone can see these very granular features.
    — Liz Appel, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Nine months later she was diagnosed with sarcoidosis of the central nervous system, a rare disease which causes inflamed cells to become granular and attack soft tissue.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The lawsuit's specific requests for action are more granular and wide-ranging than those sought in previous cases and could reverberate beyond Kenya.
    — Reuters, CNN, 10 May 2022
  • Ascertain whether the soil in the hole is quite damp, dry, and crumbly, granular (like beach sand), or fine and smooth (like clay).
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Her plan for this new restaurant is both sweeping and granular, a collage of ideas grandiose and close to the ground.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Fall is also a great time of the year to feed trees and shrubs with granular fertilizer.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Stirring too soon can create a granular ganache, not one that’s satiny, glossy, and smooth.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Some of Hendler-Grunt’s best practices are more granular.
    — Fortune, 1 June 2022
  • Pull the mulch back and sprinkle granular fertilizer onto the soil around the drip lines and hand water it in.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • In an exclusive clip of the film below, the pair’s Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight hash out some of the most granular details of the show.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 6 July 2023
  • The data offers a granular look at the emergency response time from Aug. 30 to Sept. 6.
    — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That is a perfect Matt Yglesias quote: grandiose but granular.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Were the somewhat granular textures a design choice to evoke the original?
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2023
  • And that view, as set out in a series of nine galleries, is alternately grand and granular.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • Early this year, the four teenagers showed Rauch their techniques, which went beyond cloning to include more granular changes to a card’s data.
    — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • There are tons of templates to choose from, including planners that range from monthly at-a-glance views to granular hour-by-hour days.
    — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Is the problem that this Art World Family was crass enough to spell out the humiliation of the job in granular detail?
    — Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • So, who owns your credit score and all the granular, personal data that goes into it?
    — Alexandra Peers, CNN, 14 Aug. 2022
  • In the granular sense, the case at the International Court of Justice is a chance to assess three months of devastation in Gaza.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • That morning, Hyland had sent an email to the staff that included his granular review of the Kickoff-game telecast.
    — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • With just 21 games left to play, the granular opportunities are slipping through the hourglass and the Warriors are in danger of running out of time.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Screenshot: Netflix The solution to this problem was to get a lot more granular during the encoding process.
    — Janko Roettgers, The Verge, 22 June 2024
  • The need for granular fan data to allow marketers to better tailor campaigns will only grow in importance.
    — Michael Schreiber, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2024

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