gift
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“A smaller gift is perfectly appropriate,” she added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“He had the gift of being able to connect.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
“It seemed like a big waste of government money, but I do feel bad for the people who stood in line for nothing,” wrote one Reddit user on the gift cards running out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
She described their "beautiful, magical bonds" and how "his beautiful mind was a gift for me to be in the presence of in his fourteen short years of life".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Indeed it was at the Beje that we first discovered young Peter’s musical gift.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Cash gifts of more than $1,000 are not out of the ordinary for Weiss to give close family or friends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The family have since returned to Cineworld to thank the staff who helped them, taking chocolates, gifts and a card.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Shatz, the publicist, usually caps gifts at $100 per couple, especially when she has to travel far to their wedding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The 5% of income left over would need to cover a lot, including student loan and other debt payments and nonessentials like subscriptions, clothing and gifts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Yet if the two of them shared many skills, they also had different natural gifts.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
The US leader has similarly dismissed criticism for accepting a new Air Force One plane gifted by Qatar -- aboard which he arrived in Ireland.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
In June, the charity also took the keys to eight one-bedroom modular "pods", which were gifted by the Hill Group, an Essex-based developer.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The donation to Reform UK was courtesy of two cryptocurrency billionaires, according to the Sunday Times, who each gifted the party £36m.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
John Coltrane, who practiced incessantly, obsessed with self-improvement, was a gifted American trying to find his home on the range.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Regina knew that Bobby was intellectually gifted, but at first she didn’t consider him a “prodigy.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
One of Burning Man’s 10 principles is gifting, which is why the festival runs on a gifting economy.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Attendees transform the desert into a temporary city that relies on “radical self-reliance” and a gifting economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
After the United States, the gifting initiative launched in Canada in 2006, then the U.K. in 2007, Australia in 2013 and the Republic of Ireland in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
By gifting you the house, you received your mother’s tax basis rather than a step-up to its fair market value.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
And it was Duryodhana, the eldest of the one hundred Kaurava brothers, that came to his rescue by gifting him a kingdom of his own.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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