grin
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"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
“Nothing’s ever gonna go back to how it was,” he said, with a nostalgic grin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
A passerby peers over the fence and asks, “with a wide grin: ‘Is she in there?’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A grin tugs at the edge of his mouth, quickly becoming a smile.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
This left Davies mock-floundering next to her, before she winked at the camera and grinned.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
He looked thinner than in his prior court appearance, but grinned enthusiastically as he shook his lawyers’ hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Seated backstage in a small dressing room, Tweedy grinned beneath a mop of fuzzy hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Bright grinned patiently as I interrupted my story to comment on the score.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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
The storyline is inscrutable, but Walters displays real range, gazing forlornly in the rain, hurling dishes at a wall, grinning and giving high-fives when a family takes him bowling.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Armed with the above ad and welcomed by a grinning private guard calling, “Here bunny, bunny, bunny!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
“We just laugh about it,” a grinning Siegmund said about the article.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
She’s grinning wide and has a playful glint in her eye.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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