shit
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“All ya’ll who be sending shit around the internet, promoting and listening to what they’re saying, all of ya’ll supporting this,” Henley said in one video, referring to accusations that have been made against him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
In the middle of all this, I came fully awake and had what amounted to a terrible vision that everything I had written over three months was shit.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2023
"I'll obviously hustle to help on all fronts, but it's tough to own any of this when it's all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership."
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2023
Some were still wearing the same old shit.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2023
“I did subprime first. I lived with the worst first. These guys lied to infinity. What I learned from that experience was that Wall Street didn’t give a shit what it sold.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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I tell her it’s common to get the shits for the first six weeks.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2018
You’d be surprised how much a giant space crab shits.
From The Verge ● Aug. 15, 2018
McCartney’s men’s line included preppy polo shits and V-neck sweaters matched with patterned overcoats and relaxed track pants or jeans.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
This has been well covered in every piece of Dylan hagiography out there, and is certainly one of the clearest examples of him giving zero shits about what people want and expect from him.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2014
Whatever you want to call it—he’s got the shits something terrible.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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Washington will play in the Wooden Legacy, a four-team preseason tournament on Nov. 24 and 25 in Anaheim, Calif. shat includes Saint Mary’s, Vanderbilt and Fresno State.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2022
I loved him more than I ever thought I could love a person who shat into my hand while screaming at me.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2018
My question to him was, “How do you know that these were pieces of human faeces and not humans that were eaten by American lions and then shat out in the caves?”
From National Geographic ● Jun. 9, 2018
Bringing a pet pig to London and watching as it shat on the steps of the Albert Memorial.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2014
And you hear how Gorgias, when a swallow shat on his head, rebuked it: “Shame on you, Philomela!”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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Downtown had turned to chaos—people walking everywhere, cars trying to creep through the packed streets, police horses shitting on the sidewalk.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2023
"I went in and said 'guys, I've just seen Brazil holding hands. They're shitting themselves!'"
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2021
“Eh, why bother? It’s not like she’ll be shitting in her pants at high-school graduation.”
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018
It’s not a song shitting on anything—it’s a song of healing and wanting.
From Time ● Sep. 29, 2016
“Let’s just say he’s quietly shitting in his pants,” Gil corrected.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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