jest
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In 2015, she published a memoir "Shirley, I Jest!"
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2023
Jest: LB Frankie Luvu suffered a groin injury and did not return.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2020
Bill Gates recommends 5 favorite books for 2019 — and looks ahead to ‘Infinite Jest’
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2019
Although he’s now best known for his 1996 novel, Infinite Jest, Wallace made his reputation, particularly among younger readers in the late ’90s, as an essayist and a very particular sort of journalist.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2019
“It’s no town, I guess. Jest a little church near Pittsburg Landing that got caught up in the midst of all the fightin’.”
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Vocabulary lists containing jest
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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