gibes
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With the extent of that perceived boost now in question, some of those same figures greeted Biden’s announcement with veiled and not-so-veiled gibes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024
Gunderson said the self-deprecating gibes emerged from a character “she was using as a position of power to comment on the plight of woman.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
More often the gibes between Biden and McCarthy have followed the conventions of election-year politics, focused on each other’s policy positions, not character or personal issues.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2023
“Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs? jimmy snyder.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
