jag
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Or has he been on a crying jag?
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023
What Cronenberg has done instead is to concoct a hallucinatory jag about the tortuous process Burroughs went through in creating “Naked Lunch.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
In just his second over, he got one to jag sharply and hit middle and off stumps with Shubman Gill offering no shot.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2023
When state lawmakers gathered this past week to fight about guns, they ended up going off on a jag about something else entirely:
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
“Maybe when that boy is mowing the front I’ll come over,” Biddy say, and I could see a cryin’ jag about to commence.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
Shell-shocked, he suffered panic attacks and crying jags but seems to have settled down after a sleepover with a friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
He was nicknamed "two jags" by the press after it emerged he had two Jaguar cars.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
There are jags of tears and “what ifs” even when you aren’t forced to place a child for adoption.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2021
He immediately ruled out spasmodic dysphonia and asked Emmons whether she had experienced inappropriate laughing or crying jags.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021
I drew breaths in ragged jags, my heart raced, and my skin burned.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
Just civilian volunteers burrowing through the jagged piles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
A small, goggle-eyed creature with pointy ears and a mouthful of jagged teeth has somehow become one of the defining consumer products this decade.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
The jagged course of the Dormition Cathedral’s own history tracks Ukraine’s brutal fight for independence since it was first built nearly 1,000 years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
AFP journalists saw rescue dogs and their handlers scour the pile of broken concrete and jagged metal bars.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
At the bottom stretched a nightmarish version of the Grand Canyon: a river of fire cutting a path through a jagged obsidian crevasse, the glowing red current casting horrible shadows across the cliff faces.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
His nose for a gap, jagging step and instinctive unpredictability were England's surest sources of tries throughout the autumn.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
Ohh, he does it again with his third offering, an absolute gem that swings in before jagging away.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2019
We bushwhacked until we came to a series of ditches, eight feet deep or more, jagging this way and that every few yards, sometimes intersecting with other deep, zigzaggy ditches.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014
Bobbing and jagging, the path looks cluttered and wild, but it’s just how molecules move in space.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2013
The window shuts harder than it should, and now there’s a crack jagging down the pane, a pane so dirty it lets in almost no light at all.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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