jack
Example Sentences
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Packer recommends a healthier mix like a jack russell-pug, the superbly named “jug.”
The U.S. also jacked up duties on medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
Even as policymakers have jacked up interest rates to cool spending and investment in order to dampen price increases, the nation’s inflation problem now has shifted from goods to services.
From Los Angeles Times
The plane, now propped up on jacks, creeks in the wind and strips of insulation flutter from holes in the fuselage.
From New York Times
Last summer, invoking Jackbox games, she tweeted that “a jack box night with my friends that live across the country sounds so lovely.”
From New York Times
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