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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

It does sug gest, however, that all education should ideally be integrated with workaday life, using flexible, out-of-school approaches that make education start in very early childhood and end only with death.

From Time Magazine Archive

The big gest of these now lie in the Algerian and Libyan Sahara, where drilling rigs, tank farms and smoke-plumed refiner ies give a modern industrial look to the ancient face of the desert.

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

Thou high director of the same, Assist mine artless pen, To write the gests of Britons stout, And acts of English men.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden

The merry gests and marvellous exploits of the incomparable George Borrow—these form the unique theme of our Gitano Crusoe. 

From George Borrow Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 by Thomas Seccombe

He does not assert that the earth was stopped on its axis, but sug- gests "refraction" as a way out of the difficulty.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll




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