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grin

[grin] / grɪn /
NOUN
wide smile
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VERB
smile widely
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Now nearing 50, there are signs that Watters is tiring of playing the enfant terrible, that he’s over standing on his head and then coming up to flash the requisite grin.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

She doesn’t disappoint: As Polly presides over a fractious Christmas gathering, she deftly slashes to ribbons her lovably flawed loved ones even as she flashes a mile-wide grin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

"Pair density waves are the Cheshire Cat's grin of superconductivity," said Eduardo Fradkin, an Illinois Grainger Engineering physics professor and a project co-lead.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Before Wang Cong faces off with her opponents, she dyes her hair green, paints her face white and draws a bright red grin from cheek to cheek.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

I don’t know what else to do, so I smile a big, goofy grin and add, “Just kidding!”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Smith denied this, and Schmitt grinned as if he’d just effectively locked Smith in jail forever on perjury charges.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

"I was reading about the football," grinned Jamie, 65, adding that he was "not the most political".

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

When Tinfow found himself at a loss for words, she grinned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Goodell grinned and replied, “I really don’t know the answer to that one. If she’s interested, she has the ability to do it, let’s put it that way.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Ella grinned and ran off to wake Brigit.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

At one point, after singing a couple of numbers on a small B-stage about halfway up the bowl, she walked through the crowd back to the main stage, gripping and grinning the entire way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

"We're ready for the fight" is the Telegraph's headline, accompanied by a photo of a grinning Badenoch alongside her husband Hamish.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

“I’m optimistic,” Hunt said, grinning as he prepped for his next leg.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Jumping down from her uncle's shoulders, seven-year-old Dona ran grinning to her mother after Pope Leo XIV waved at her on his way past on a famed Paris avenue.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. You won’t be grinning when you’re cleaning up all that hellhound poop,” Dad says.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas


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