gesture
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"Donald, if you're listening, I am very grateful. It's a very good gesture," Carney said, calling Trump "a very good host."
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
It was more of a flick or a gesture, than a kick out.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
But while your brother’s lack of money management appears to have led your mother to make this gesture, it’s also important not to punish his children for the sins of their father.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
One man had his hands joined in a gesture of thanks or prayer as he was carried away in a stretcher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
He scratched his snout awkwardly to salvage the gesture.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
She explained that Gracie, who was autistic and had learning difficulties, mostly communicated in gestures at the time, so Emma had been walking towards her daughter.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The mayor has made other conciliatory gestures to the city’s capitalist class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The “Family Docudrama” series and much that followed read as something like autofiction, drawn from life but juiced up, rephrased, with gestures and incidents isolated and amplified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Silent cinema performers used their whole bodies — eyes, gestures, poses — as narrative devices.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
Because ever since that doctor swooped in, with his grand gestures and his medical language and his coffee breath, I’ve checked out.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
Toward the end of the performance Raul stood and gestured to the crowd that they should stand and applaud.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
She gestured at it: “Treat me as though I were dead.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Anyway, before we could respond, he gestured at a TV mounted on the wall, level with the highest shelves groaning with organic kibble and handmade toys, and sang out, “Because there he is!”
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
He gestured to the script on my lap, “Is that a script you’re reading?”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
The man gestured wildly, and Boaz had a hunch on the language.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
“I have accepted every single one of these debates,” said Hilton, standing behind a debate-style podium and gesturing at an empty one beside him with Becerra’s name on it .
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
He began shouting and gesturing toward Caballero, which led to the benches clearing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
"I remember that as a child I climbed up there, all the way to the main roof tile," former salt farmer Omer Hot said, gesturing at the seven-metre-high storehouse roof.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
"I grew up over there and I live over there," says bassist Theo Ellis, gesturing towards the horizon from the stage.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Ira heard and opened her eyes, gesturing vaguely towards him.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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