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  • a variation of gibe.
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jibe

[jahyb] / dʒaɪb /


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It also wouldn’t jibe with my understanding, at least, of a democratic replacement process.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

This week, their relationship took a nosedive as tensions flared over the war and a personal jibe directed at Macron.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

Stepped-up bill issuance by the Treasury would jibe with the Fed’s announced end of quantitative tightening, which was anticipated.

From Barron's Oct. 31, 2025

Trifonov is undercut, though, by ostentatious conducting, whereas Dudamel and Wang jibe.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2025

Answering questions about her personal history did not jibe with Mommy’s view of parenting twelve curious, wild, brown-skinned children.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

This jibes with the challenge hypothesis, which says, in multiple species, testosterone levels rise when males battle for attention from potential mates and go down when it’s time to take care of the young.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

But for some festival-goers, the choice of location was not welcomed - with ticket-holders taking to social media to make jibes about the distance of the venue from its namesake city.

From BBC Mar. 16, 2026

Some opera singers hoped that the actor’s jibes might actually prove beneficial for the form in a roundabout way.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 9, 2026

Djokovic is not afraid to go toe to toe with hostile fans, using their jibes to fuel his relentless quest for glory and showing the depth of his competitiveness.

From Barron's Jan. 31, 2026

She was used to his gentle jibes about her social-service faith and she would have responded to say that she was not even sure she believed in a Christian God that could not be seen.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Their results initially jibed with the annual count, falling within five percentage points above or below it.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2025

Everything he observed jibed with what he knew of Bruegel the Younger, who had painted several works depicting the same scene of a Spanish official collecting taxes from Flemish peasants.

From Washington Post Apr. 4, 2023

"What can you say, let them try," he jibed.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2022

But "proper" is a fuzzier concept when you are tightening underlying monetary policy - unlike the 2012-14 period when easier and easier policy jibed with the underlying deflation picture.

From Reuters Jun. 10, 2022

“Ask her where it came from,” jibed Goodwife Cruff, unable to keep silent.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

The whole thing kind of feels like a rehearsal process, you’re in the studio and you’re just trying things and experimenting and just jibing with the creative team.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 2022

It came too close to the top mark after the first leg and at the bottom mark, the New Zealand boat Te Rehutai reared up on its foils, then crashed back after a jibing error.

From Washington Times Dec. 18, 2020

As this happens, a small wheel will adjust the sails as the spacecraft tacks like a sailboat jibing into and away from the sun’s photons.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2019

Later, she decided to begin homeschooling her son—regular school “wasn’t jibing with his personality,” she says.

From Salon Apr. 28, 2013

Clouds and rain came up on the wind, which veered and gusted so wildly that there was considerable danger of the ship jibing.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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