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Xi has also long held Peng’s hand during official occasions, an unusual gesture for a Chinese leader that state media has highlighted as a sign of the couple’s devotion to each other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The gesture inverted one of the most familiar images in the history of the U.S.-China rapprochement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“I’m trying to find some consensual way into it, but I eventually just need to perform the romantic gesture of doing what feels right and what comes naturally to me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

In what appears to be a conciliatory gesture, Infantino writes: "Over recent weeks, I have taken time to listen before writing to you."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

His gesture concluded his sentence for him—and look how totally awesome I am!

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

While there were many symbolic gestures, including Chinese pandas from President Xi, there were few big movements – although they committed to a six month extension of the tariff truce.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The mayor has made other conciliatory gestures to the city’s capitalist class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The “Family Docudrama” series and much that followed read as something like autofiction, drawn from life but juiced up, rephrased, with gestures and incidents isolated and amplified.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Silent cinema performers used their whole bodies — eyes, gestures, poses — as narrative devices.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026

Because ever since that doctor swooped in, with his grand gestures and his medical language and his coffee breath, I’ve checked out.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Toward the end of the performance Raul stood and gestured to the crowd that they should stand and applaud.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

She gestured at a crowd of at least 40 people: “You’re not the only one. All these people are here because of StubHub.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Littler also gestured that Van Veen was a "cry baby" and the pair did not speak for multiple weeks.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Anyway, before we could respond, he gestured at a TV mounted on the wall, level with the highest shelves groaning with organic kibble and handmade toys, and sang out, “Because there he is!”

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

I gestured to the store, the displays I’d arranged, the crowd that I’d invited.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

"You see the water there?" he said, gesturing at the Gulf separating the UAE from the coasts of southern Iran.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

“I have accepted every single one of these debates,” said Hilton, standing behind a debate-style podium and gesturing at an empty one beside him with Becerra’s name on it .

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

"I remember that as a child I climbed up there, all the way to the main roof tile," former salt farmer Omer Hot said, gesturing at the seven-metre-high storehouse roof.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Barzar said, gesturing for a customer in line to move to an open register.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

“You could want this,” he said, gesturing broadly around the room.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse