spit
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"They give it to the babies, who chew on it themselves and spit out the solids".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Health trackers might spit out unreliable numbers, but doctors say they’re still useful for spotting personal trends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
It is in our nature to see something new and spit it out like we are 2 years old and PepsiCo has offered us a spoonful of broccoli.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
I will take down any amount of food and I will not ask for a spit bucket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Each time she removed the glass hood, it hissed and flared, ready to spit its poison at her, and refused to part with the precious and valuable nectar inside its petals.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Humans should want more for themselves than a binary good-bad, or the answers to all of life’s questions spat out by a machine.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
What their computer model spat out was 28 potential caves in south-west Ireland which the team investigated.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Bank of Canada announces an interest-rate decision at 9:45 a.m., where its assessment of the U.S.-Canadian trade spat will be in focus.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Sheinbaum later said at her daily press conference that the former official at the center of the spat, ex-prime minister Betssy Chavez, was being flown on Friday aboard a Mexican military plane to Mexico.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The outer skin was tough—Mal spat hers out—but biting through to the flesh of it was astonishing.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
That’s because the first preseason practice of the Kalen DeBoer era was greeted with a sudden bout of Pacific Northwest weather, as rain spitted on the turf inside Husky Stadium Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet of spitted laham-mashwy and rice pilaff for the ship's officers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bringing a touch of Parisian gallantry to wilderness New York, he cried: "Never was a leg of mutton spitted with greater majesty."
From Time Magazine Archive
Defendant Browder instead chose to plead his own case, ably belabored the technical charge on which he was spitted.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last Merry stirred and whispered softly: ‘So far so good; but how are we to avoid being spitted?’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson said he felt Israel were "trying to intimidate" his team amid allegations of spitting during Sunday's tense Uefa Nations League draw.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Unfortunately for Khan and Fabre, not everyone is sipping and spitting at Medoc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
They later identified Solomon as the suspect through a takeout order he was carrying when the spitting incident occurred and took him into custody at his apartment home nearby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
She gets him within spitting distance of Downing Street just in time for her husband to dump her.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
“You! You! You!” she kept screaming in a parody of Mamá’s voice, spitting putrid saliva on my face.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
