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"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

“I would have been a lot better off if they didn’t, because the fact that I took it said, ‘Oh gee, is something wrong?’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 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

“Well, gee, it must be him, because this is a chronicle of his crimes,” Orr said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

“Oh, gee, I’m really sorry, Bobby,” he says, like he honestly means it, “but I’m already running on another ticket.”

From "The Misfits" by James Howe

"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

Konstas was unruffled, smashing Bumrah for 18 in the next over and geeing up the crowd to keep up the noise, before reaching his fifty with two off Siraj.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024

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

What emotion he displayed was spent geeing up those around him, applauding Barkley’s dribble and ambitious attempt, or Luke Shaw’s energy down the left.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2014

Usually there is much geeing and hawing, excitement, and continual noise and expletives, about a job of this kind.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman