jib
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"Perhaps they don't like the cut of Swindon's jib," said Sumner.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
She also uses a floating router jib for most of their joinery since the machine can’t rest on the wood’s uneven surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Apparently RFK Jr vetted him this week and really liked the cut of his jib.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
It leans like a ladder in midair, “and the camera is on another track with a jib arm and a dolly attached to the top of the jib.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
By then Hamilton had the gaff and boom under control and I pulled down the jib.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
You swerved; you shied; you jibbed; you baulked.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2016
But the leaders of the 125-lawyer firm jibbed at his demands.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when Congress jibbed a bit, the President said he could accept a $1.3 billion "bookkeeping" cut.
From Time Magazine Archive
She left the yards peaceably enough, but jibbed at the river ford.
From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Ridgwell Cullum
He had jibbed at the thought of that photograph of Lassigny, propped for her opening eye.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Archibald Marshall
Security Minister Dan Jarvis said that the problem was a recurring one, telling MPs that "forced entry, tailgating, and so-called jibbing, are not victimless acts".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
You find the jibbing echos of the movement in Rom-Coms like "Scott Pilgrim Versus the World" today.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2016
Former House Speaker John Boehner cried frequently enough during his tenure that it became expected—so at least the jibbing he received didn’t make him feel the need to hide his emotions.
From Time ● Feb. 8, 2016
Eric Crozier is here and doing his stuff without jibbing, and I seem able to turn honest English prose with duetinnos or arias when required to do so.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2010
Then he got off and led the horse, which was evidently what the brute wanted, for when the man remounted the jibbing began again.
From France at War On the Frontier of Civilization by Rudyard Kipling
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