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spit

[spit] / spɪt /




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And if he has to spit in Hollywood’s face to save his own, well, apparently that’s fine too.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 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

These Heartland dads are rolling up their golf-shirt sleeves and getting spit up on.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

It will test new, cutting-edge screening techniques such as fast MRI scans and genetic spit tests to find the best ways to detect the disease.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

“I thought I saw Maalu spit you out,” said Shifa.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

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

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

Police investigators learned that a man had spat on a Tesla that was stopped at the intersection.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

Earlier, prior to this spat emerging in public, the prime minister's official spokesman said: "The prime minister and all ministers remain in office and the normal business of government continues."

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

They could throw it into the air and spat it back and forth with their hands.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

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

Defendant Browder instead chose to plead his own case, ably belabored the technical charge on which he was spitted.

From Time Magazine Archive

He raised his head slowly, looking across at the spitted chickens revolving before the low blue rotisserie flames.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

Instead of spitting at them, the students greeted the white-veiled nuns with a warm “Shabbat Shalom!”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 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

Both he and Kareem have been spitting seeds down at me the whole time, but that was the first one to reach me.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner




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