grin

"Pair density waves are the Cheshire Cat's grin of superconductivity," said Eduardo Fradkin, an Illinois Grainger Engineering physics professor and a project co-lead.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Before Wang Cong faces off with her opponents, she dyes her hair green, paints her face white and draws a bright red grin from cheek to cheek.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

His boyish grin was a fixture in his tight-knit neighborhood for more than three decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

A passerby peers over the fence and asks, “with a wide grin: ‘Is she in there?’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

There was Neel the potter, his mouth stretched into a vast grin, the people from the gardens, and Timon, the teacher.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

Smith denied this, and Schmitt grinned as if he’d just effectively locked Smith in jail forever on perjury charges.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

"I was reading about the football," grinned Jamie, 65, adding that he was "not the most political".

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

“Or maybe that’s what I tell myself,” she grinned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

He looked thinner than in his prior court appearance, but grinned enthusiastically as he shook his lawyers’ hands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

There was a boy named Calvin who told me his favorite thing in the world was homework, and then he grinned real big at Ms. Washington.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

Others—depicting grinning clowns, crying women and morphing objects and creatures, including human figures potted like plants—recall children’s drawings and John Tenniel’s illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Jumping down from her uncle's shoulders, seven-year-old Dona ran grinning to her mother after Pope Leo XIV waved at her on his way past on a famed Paris avenue.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The storyline is inscrutable, but Walters displays real range, gazing forlornly in the rain, hurling dishes at a wall, grinning and giving high-fives when a family takes him bowling.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Armed with the above ad and welcomed by a grinning private guard calling, “Here bunny, bunny, bunny!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

“On the hike, I’ll lead the way, and Gary will bring up the rear, to make sure there aren’t any stragglers,” Mr. Hodge said, grinning to make it seem like a joke.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix