goose
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“Primetime” doesn’t goose much tension out of the pending disaster, perhaps assuming that we already know what happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Although such total goose eggs are rare, an inverse 3X fund that sought to triple the opposite of the daily return of Moderna stock went to zero last month on the London Stock Exchange.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The meat has been described as tasting like a cross between kipper and steak or "salty goose" and, less flatteringly, as "rotten leather and fishy beef", external.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
While the next men’s World Cup, FIFA’s biggest golden goose, is still four years away, the consequences of a European boycott would have been felt immediately.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
“This is a wild goose chase,” the pilot said.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
The geese eventually fire their weapons into the air as fireworks explode over the words “Lake America.”
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Bird remains were found on other samples of the blades, and a witness reported seeing a flock of geese take flight shortly before the crash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
"An eyewitness account of about 20 'geese' taking flight and heading toward the river just minutes before a loud bang was heard corroborates geese in the area shortly before the crash."
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
US Airways Flight 1549 came down in the Hudson River on 15 January 2009, after both its engines were disabled in a collision with a flock of geese shortly after take-off.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Before long, the coming and going of delighted geese was just another part of the robot’s autumn routine.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
But I dug how Cretton gooses our spidey senses with dramatic sound effects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The experimental vaccine takes an entirely different approach: It gooses the body's preexisting supply of pathogen-gobbling immune cells called macrophages, which engulf and digest bacteria, fungi and other bad actors.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023
“But if we get cooler jobs data, cooler inflation data, if we get cooler spending data, that’s what brings rates down dramatically and that gooses stocks higher. That’s kind of what we saw this week.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
And she gooses the dramatic tension with a few scattered hints — such as the woman’s neglect in taking her Honda Civic to the shop — that later flower savagely.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
I was surprised that all them sitting-in-one-spot ducks and gooses hadn’t been took home and cooked.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Cycling, like other endurance sports, has undergone a revolution in carb-taking, a trend that also goosed mind-bending breakthroughs like the recent sub 2-hour marathons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
After several months waiting on a review from Los Angeles County Building and Safety, she said she goosed the process along by sitting in the county office on Woodbury Avenue during her lunch breaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
"You're totally goosed the next day and then the day after that is a battle as well," said Murray, whose brother Andy finished an Australian Open match last year at 4am.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2024
Still, even if that report is goosed up, just look out the window.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The bed sagged, the TV picture jumped as if it were being mercilessly goosed by an electronic component, and my door didn’t lock.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
The kids took to TikTok and Instagram to dissect every awful thing Banks and the rest did in the name of goosing ratings, with many wondering why its audience barely blinked at its endless exploitation.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
It’s a key point on Wall Street because cuts to rates would release pressure on the economy and the financial system, while goosing investment prices.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Parton gives the hoary tune new life by flipping the gender of Rodgers’ lyric — she’s a “lady muleskinner” — and by goosing it with a hurtling rock-and-soul rhythm track.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
In the past decade, especially, the tacked-on guest feature has become a tried-and-true method for goosing a song to No. 1.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2020
Five or six more men left the porch and surrounded the fractious beast, goosing him in the sides and making him show his temper.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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