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To “I Feel Pretty”: I bought Twitter, don’t be bitter, I will git ’er much fitter, you’ll see I’m no quitter — there’s no leader more steadfast than me!

From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022

After fires, illness and neighbor squabbles, the book ends with the youngest Slater boy, Shoestring, wanting “to git book-larnin’.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2021

If that hurricane don’t git ya, them gators likely will in the Florida-set 2019 disaster flick/creature feature “Crawl.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2020

I have a home, children, friends, a resurrected career and no miserable old git asking how much my boots cost.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2020

When I’d git up off my knees, I’d feel better.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

We had half of our gits wrapped and bagged and ready to go out the door.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

PwC has hit back at comments by Lord Alan Sugar in which he branded its staff "lazy gits", after the accountancy giant said workers could take Friday afternoons off over summer.

From BBC ● May 10, 2022

Of course, for the old gits among us, it’s impossible to conceive of Everton in the FA Cup without immediately conceiving on 1985’s seminal Wogan appearance.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2022

So if you do survive into old age, you may well be happier because the miserable gits who used to make you unhappy during your middle years will have popped off.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2016

“You know many’s de time Ah done thought about dat mahself. He gits on her ever now and then when she make litde mistakes round de store.”

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston