gestures

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The best likely outcome for investors: Symbolic gestures that steady the relationship and preserve, and possibly extend, the detente reached last fall.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

The best likely outcome for investors: Symbolic gestures that steady the relationship and preserve, and possibly extend, the detente reached last fall.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

These gestures offer a lesson about our human condition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

From his office overlooking the glistening waterway, the third generation fish merchant gestures to the horizon.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Miss Miller was now the only teacher in the room: a group of great girls standing about her spoke with serious and sullen gestures.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë