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Looking ahead: “The economy is charging on in spite of higher rates and energy prices,” said Mark Streiber, economic analyst at FHN Financial.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

She added that she genuinely “wanted to commit to the work I was doing in spite of those lies.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Unionist politicians have urged the five-person commission to permit Sunday's march in spite of opposition from a group of local residents.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

“During the Mora years, we averaged around 70,000 a game. I think that can easily return in spite of the presence of the NFL.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Betsie’s graduation from secondary school in spite of the months missed with illness.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“In this small, final, seemingly quiet but ultimately volcanic book of stories, Trevor denies and defies — maybe spites — the promise of decline,” Cynthia Ozick wrote here.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2020

These days, archbishops tend to have more Christian charity, while the petty spites and preposterous self-importance of their 1936 counterparts have been transferred to breakfast television presenters and so on.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020

There are "get-out-of-my-sight" scenes that have not been witnessed since Bette Davis hung up her spites.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is tune the old cold warrior hung up his spites.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her time with Tariq’s family always felt natural to Laila, effortless, uncomplicated by differences in tribe or language, or by the personal spites and grudges that infected the air at her own home.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

A sample: During the chorus, Swift proves once more that she’d make a fantastic BuzzFeed writer, telling us about yet another list she keeps of those who spited her.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2017

Last week Bush spited journalists who prematurely published the identity of his choice for Transportation Secretary by postponing the nomination of Chicago attorney Samuel Skinner.

From Time Magazine Archive

To confess the truth, tia, I was a little spited myself at first.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin- grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.

From Holiday Romance by Charles Dickens

Of course he spited the poor young chap, and how could the fact be denied when the poor ghost had come back to ask for his blood?

From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge

In Free, she depicts it as a bored child, picking her up and putting her down, chewing her up and spiting her out "a hundred times a day".

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2022

And spitting is still socially acceptable - be it chewing tobacco, sportsmen spiting on camera or Bollywood portrayals of men spitting while fighting each other.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2021

When James rejects the idea, Rhythm kidnaps Dom, spiting him away into a virtual “Serververse.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021

So do you not watch, to enlarge the collective spiting of him?

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2021

He couldn’t get his way this time—not after threatening their fives and sending them to make Achelous miserable for the sake of spiting Hera.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan