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gest

[jest] / dʒɛst /


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If a phrase sparks the gest of song memory endures longer — like the hum of a taut string in the dark.

From New York Times Jan. 28, 2021

Ricky is getting a gest board on Krooked too.

From Time Magazine Archive

She also has to di gest the fact that her half sister, too, was in love with the B.B.

From Time Magazine Archive

It does sug gest, however, that all education should ideally be integrated with workaday life, using flexible, out-of-school approaches that make education start in very early childhood and end only with death.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You could see your neighbor very dimly. Those ten seconds were the lon- gest ten seconds that I ever experienced.”

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

You don’t want to drop $1 trillion in capital expenditures “and it’s the second mouse that gests the cheese,” Janasiewicz said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

His new novel sug gests that he may be suffering from over production.

From Time Magazine Archive

True he sat at the feet of the wise men of Greece in the Gardens of Academus, but the eurythmy of their gests fascinated him more than the soberness of their doctrines.

From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous

No doubt it was, once; but not in a chronicle of this sort, where the Cypriote gests must take a lowly place among others fair and foul of this King-errant.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Off gret gests a sow thai maid, That stalwart heildyne aboyne it haid; With armyt men inew tharin, And instruments for to myne.

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott




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