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gee

[jee] / dʒi /
INTERJECTION
alas
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INTERJECTION
gosh
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It’s an argument that Superman’s golly gee spirit is his greatest asset, no subversion necessary.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 7, 2026

"It was like they wanted to do something, but then really didn't put the effort into it and then said, gee, it didn't work," she told AFP.

From Barron's Jan. 31, 2026

“And then when the finance company says, ‘Oh, gee, sorry, we can’t actually get the loan on those terms, could you sign some worse terms?’

From MarketWatch Oct. 27, 2025

That means that if somebody goes to see you in a play or a movie while you’re doing “Law & Order,” the audience doesn’t think, “Oh, gee, I already saw this.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 22, 2024

She applied Tan- gee Orange to her lips, combed her hair, and stuck down her cowlick with some of Jem’s Vitalis.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

"It's about finding out what makes people tick, what motivates them. "People such as Ian Botham were good when you geed them up.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2015

"It's great credit to the managers down there who have really responded to the threat of relegation and geed their teams up. It's going to be a grandstand finish."

From BBC May 9, 2015

A giant owl mascot geed up the crowd.

From Reuters Mar. 24, 2014

He said he doesn't know he does it, and said: 'That's just the way I play and I have to shout to get myself geed up for a game.'

From The Guardian Mar. 23, 2011

Then the oxen stopped and Uncle John took the bars down out of the holes in the posts, and the oxen geed up again through the gate into the corn-field.

From The Sandman: His Farm Stories by William J. Hopkins

You saw Walker geeing the fans up and everyone felt together.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2021

Eager to work on issues such as attention span, Williams turns guinea pig, submitting to magnetic brain stimulation to achieve better focus, geeing up creativity by means of electrodes over her prefrontal cortex, and more.

From Nature Jan. 24, 2017

The main value of celebrity campaigners is in geeing up the flagging activists who really get out the vote.

From Economist Apr. 23, 2015

Scott said Malone helped keep him on track, and occasionally assisted with the geeing up.

From New York Times Jul. 19, 2012

Asteead o’ geeing t’brass t’ poor,    It’s shocking fer to tell, They’ll hardly let em into t’door—    I knaw it be mesel.

From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright




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