spit
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Residents of the tiny coastal village of Zvernec were shocked two years ago when Kushner posted renderings of a planned resort on a spit of land where their parents and grandparents once raised potatoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
"AI can spit your idea back and forth, challenge it and advise you on what you need to consider that you might no obviously see."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Two streetwear-dripped-out dudes on the patio of Verve Coffee nearly spit out their matchas on a recent Monday afternoon in West Hollywood, when the singer-songwriter Lacy walked up to order an iced tea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
LinkedIn is peppered with stories of job listings requiring candidates to take questionnaires or use specific words or phrases in cover letters, in order to avoid applications spit out by bots.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
He spat the words at the dragon: a little fleck of spit landed on its wings.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
One of them apparently hooked the fish, but the shark spat out the bait, according to Kohanchi’s account of events in the video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Police investigators learned that a man had spat on a Tesla that was stopped at the intersection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Barajas spat, looking back at Lopez as spectators applauded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The ball skidded, spat and turned, but the eighth-wicket pair survived until Santner skipped one into Atkinson's back pad.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
She spat out the rubber band and bound up the bottom of Pita’s braid.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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
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
The whole world is invited, as many reputations as possible are spitted and turned slowly over a sizzling fire, the fumes purposely wafted this way and that.
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
It warrants no qualifiers, no deeper thought, because Boy George clearly didn’t think too hard about it himself before spitting it out into the world.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Keenan recalled how the witness spoke of him "spitting out words" and being "disproportionately angry" at times.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Thrust into a position that was not his, Bradley had to endure the jeers of frenzied aficionados at the start of his professional career, along with spitting and tossed coins.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
A singer and guitarist who had stood within spitting distance of Mick Jagger at the Rolling Stones show, Brioso said his own band broke up when most of its members emigrated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
For the rest of the night the only sounds are the sounds I decide to make: writing numbers, spitting toothpaste, walking like a cat to my room, closing my bedroom door, flipping pages.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
