gig
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If I—a single woman who lives alone and works from home—don’t have the luxury of me time, I cannot fathom what families, gig workers, and recent college graduates must endure.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
The Miami Dolphins gritted their teeth through $99 million in dead money when they released Tua Tagovailoa, who landed in Atlanta and is now battling for the quarterback gig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
A framed photo of Kasabian's recent Finsbury Park gig sits in bubble wrap at the foot of the stairs.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
At the top of the gig in Berkeley, he showed photos from a hike he’d taken and of a car he’d come across with a tricked-out sound system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Apparently, Mom isn’t up to the drag ’n’ whine mall gig either.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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So while “Goin’ Local” is technically Kaye’s first solo record, back in 1984, there was another project, the Lenny Kaye Connection, a quartet which gigged around New York City and environs.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
For 15 years, both with a band and on his own, DeBardi had gigged around Everett and Western Washington under the moniker Steel Beans in relative obscurity.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
She gigged constantly, whether as the leader of her own groups or a guest in the ensembles of the saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and the vocalist Fay Victor.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
After graduation, he gigged around town, including a stint at the top-floor bar at L’Ermitage Beverly Hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
Though of course they wouldn’t have been gigged.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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After graduating from high school in 1948, Rollins started gigging around New York and, by the early 1950s, was recording with Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, who Rollins called his “guru.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
"When they heard that we were coming over and gigging, it was just incredible the feedback we all got, it was great craic," she said.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
"We cannot lose this music as we are on the way out," pleaded Diasihilua, who has already spent 50 of his 73 years on earth gigging.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
Years before the turning point of that album, though, Weinberg was growing up in Jersey, where he was “a gigging drummer” even as a child.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025
“Anybody here gigging Aunt Fanny’s frogs? Pearl, have you been gigging Aunt Fanny’s frogs?”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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