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But he doesn’t seem to be riding off medbeds now, in spite of how popular they’ve become.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 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

One comment claimed that these posts were made in spite of bail conditions heavily limiting Webster's internet use and explicitly preventing him from communicating via social media.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

In spite of their political differences—Joshua and Karlie are avowedly liberal—the brothers remain close according to those who know them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

“Of course I am,” she said, grinning in spite of herself.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

“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

I'll tell you what: I've a jolly good mind to tell him myself beforehand, and then we'll see who's spited.'

From The Nether World by George Gissing

"You are spited and jealous; but don't dare to speak disrespectfully of Mademoiselle in my presence, sirrah," said Gabriel, fiercely.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

I’m sure of it; many a poor woman has been driven into wedlock again, only because she was spited into it by her husband’s will. 

From Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Douglas William Jerrold

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