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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

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

Ricky is getting a gest board on Krooked too.

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

Thus had Achilles his owne gests design'd, He had his genius Homer far outshin'd.

From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace

Vials of good sweet waters, and casting-bottels of glass, to besprinckel the gests withal, after their coming aborde.

From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by William Charles Henry Wood

The merry gests and marvellous exploits of the incomparable George Borrow—these form the unique theme of our Gitano Crusoe. 

From George Borrow Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 by Thomas Seccombe




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