grinch
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Signs like “Seat belts are in, everybody’s wearing them” and “Don’t be a grinch, let them merge” are to be phased out by 2026.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2024
I don’t mean to be a grinch; Christmas and New Year’s are worthy observations, not media distractions, but could the timing be worse?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
The grinch may be lurking on rooftops and Santa will be waiting at the end of the route to wave goodbye to parade goers on their way home.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2020
I seek the fun in athletics, so I’m not into constantly being the grinch burdening your sports experience.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2015
However, there's a grinch in the works: rival store manager Warren Clarke, determined to secure the most takings on the big day by foul means.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2012
We are more than halfway through the North American installment of Gianni Infantino’s bedazzled global soccer smorgasbord, and even the ball-deflating soccer grinches among us must confess the action’s been…fairly irresistible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Everywhere I turned, I saw decorations for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas all merged into a torture chamber bedecked with lighted trees, inflatable grinches, pumpkins, scarecrows and turkey fryers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
But as he stood at his corner on Saturday evening, White told the station that two grinches began pelting him with eggs.
From Fox News ● Dec. 22, 2021
People who complain about them are sourpusses and grinches.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2015
But she feared turning over rights to use the elf, lest the networks prove to be corporate grinches.
From Inc ● Nov. 23, 2011
