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[chest] / tʃɛst /




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After getting the message about Hegseth’s ghoulish plan, I closed Signal, made my travel arrangements with shaking hands, and pulled back onto the road with my heart jackhammering in my chest.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

The SPHA’s largely Jewish team wore uniforms with Hebrew letters across the chest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Press down hard using your body weight, to a depth of about 5-6cm before releasing the pressure, allowing the chest to come back up.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

His dismissal, again like in the first innings, came shortly after being hit by a bouncer, with Starc clattering one into his chest on this occasion.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

My chest seizes, air knots in my throat.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Some even advertised their services as treasure hunters, bringing customers to unusual locations where they searched for chests filled with gold and silver coins by the light of the moon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Everybody would grab their ice chests and pile into cars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Thousands of people across South East Asia are now feeling the effects of those emissions in their eyes, chests and throats.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Gaggles of British tourists with fur coats and spray tans jostled for seating, clutching their outerwear to their chests for space as they scouted for a table to open up.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

The cap’n was doing the ’zact same thing, ’cept that Ma hadn’t wanted no one to see her chests, whilst the cap’n didn’t want no one to see his rickets.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis


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