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gest

[jest] / dʒɛst /


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If a phrase sparks the gest of song memory endures longer — like the hum of a taut string in the dark.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2021

Not daring to sug gest that Germany will ask for the emergency moratorium provided in the Young Plan, Herr Bruning hinted that circumstances may force the Allies to grant it.

From Time Magazine Archive

With it, he also took on one of his big gest problems.

From Time Magazine Archive

It involves the labyrinthine world of computer leasing, a honey-tongued Texas hustler, the big gest and most prestigious U.S. banks and IBM.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You could see your neighbor very dimly. Those ten seconds were the lon- gest ten seconds that I ever experienced.”

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

You don’t want to drop $1 trillion in capital expenditures “and it’s the second mouse that gests the cheese,” Janasiewicz said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

His new novel sug gests that he may be suffering from over production.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Scotland, Huchowne’s works might no doubt have been regarded as the standard romances of the period, but that they were the only English gests is indeed very doubtful.

From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris

Prosper's aim on leaving High March after his gests of arms had been Goltres, for there he had believed to find Galors.

From The Forest Lovers by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Off gret gests a sow thai maid, That stalwart heildyne aboyne it haid; With armyt men inew tharin, And instruments for to myne.

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott


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