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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
And by the fortune of war it is U.S. flyers who have had the big gest part in creating that pattern.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sire: I respectfully sug gest and in your behalf implore that you relieve me completely from all my duties in connection with your American tour.
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
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
Thus had Achilles his owne gests design'd, He had his genius Homer far outshin'd.
From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace
In Scotland, Huchowne’s works might no doubt have been regarded as the standard romances of the period, but that they were the only English gests is indeed very doubtful.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris
