gesture
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Everyone had to introduce themselves in a circle by stating their hobby and coming up with a nonverbal gesture to demonstrate it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
If your retirement fund is not where it ought to be, then you don’t give money to family members as a gesture.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
"Thousands of people every day have performed the famous heel-spinning gesture," city councillors said.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
Max Mathiasin, a lawmaker from the former colony turned overseas territory of Guadeloupe who is championing the bill, last week said repealing the decrees would be a "powerful symbolic and political gesture".
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
Her hand cut through the air in a gesture of impatience.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Vocabulary lists containing gesture
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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"Of Mice and Men"
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"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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