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In this light, posturing as sympathetic is an empty gesture, meant to encourage women into motherhood without actually helping them survive it intact.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Decades later, Dalibor, now 44, was able to find the pair to thank them, saying the gesture had "meant a lot" at a time of great difficulty.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The country’s Ministry of Information said it has not asked for or received any compensation, instead viewing the agreement as a humanitarian gesture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

“Please vote against that. That would deter people from voting,” Becerra said, making a thumbs-down gesture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

Then Fox got up, approached Eatherly and made gestures toward him.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

They could even convey the rules they had discovered through gestures or sketches.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

He is making calming gestures, calming like I am a wild animal and he is a trainer, hands flattening the air.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

He then gestured to people behind the camera, saying "come on, let's go", before standing up and walking off the set.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 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

Lavie appeared in a jailhouse-yellow shirt and blue pants and looked distressed throughout the hearing, nodding and gesturing to friends at times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

A few days later, a woman stood outside the window – gesturing a thumbs down.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 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

Harpootlian asked the judge to allow Murdaugh to appear in the next hearing in street clothes, gesturing for Murdaugh to stand up in his orange jumpsuit labeled “SCDC” for S.C.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

When they crested the knoll, Clare bounded ahead to unlatch the garden gate, gesturing Gingersnipes inside.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman