grizzled ˈgri-zəld adjective
: having dark hairs mixed with grey or white
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The word grizzled has appeared in 55 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 14 in “‘In Baseball, There Is Neither Crying Nor the Asterisk’” by Benjamin Hoffman:
The concept of asterisks in baseball record books has swirled around the sport ever since it was announced that this season would be drastically altered because of the coronavirus. But John Thorn, Major League Baseball’s official historian, said that conversation was always much ado about nothing: We are witnessing a season that is as real as any other, he said.
… “My crystal ball is cloudy as to what folks might think a decade from now, but I view this as a season of unparalleled strangeness,” he said. “The upside — beyond the fine fact that baseball is being played at all — is that fans and pundits, although grumbling all the way, have given M.L.B. license to experiment with the grand old game. Some innovations were hated at the outset but then worked their charms on even grizzled veterans like me.”
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