jive

Just because a filmmaker does something with one film that a viewer may not jive with doesn’t mean their work should be refuted forevermore.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

Cantrell says he’s experimenting with “vibe coding External link,” which I hear a lot, and sometimes mistakenly call jive coding, which works, too.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Back in the actual 1990s, ice dancers cycled through traditional dances: samba, blues, polka, rumba, quickstep, tango, jive, paso doble, Viennese waltz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

They also performed a football-themed jive to One Way Or Another by Blondie, earning them a standing ovation - and their second perfect score of the night.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

“Some jive flying, but look at her strut.”

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Standard time, the group argues, better jives with the movement of the sun and the circadian rhythm, or body clock, of human beings.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 11, 2023

By checking in on irrigation systems and soil wetness, especially during the early transplant/growing days, you'll work out a routine that jives for your specific plan.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2022

“There is a rapaciousness in the air, bordering on the obscene, as the city contorts, bends, shucks and jives to become whatever version of itself will bring about the largest turn of profit,” she wrote.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020

My version is perfectly suited for families and jives with the sheet-pan cooking method popular today.

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2019

So now my jives are off: pray Heaven he be here!

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant by Francis Beaumont

They drove the car, with its dented fender and chipping maroon paint, through the streets playing music and delighting Carnival revelers who jumped and jived in their wake, said Macedo, 65.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

Everything is flat and framed in medium shots, missing the dark cityscape aesthetic of the first film, which jived with the ethos of modern mythology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

If someone came to me and was like, you could do this cool thing for Netflix or whatever and it really jived with my life, I would do it, but I don’t know.

From The Verge ● Aug. 24, 2021

But even as costumed fans shimmied, jived and reminisced, the talk was of an uncertain future.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2020

They jostled and jammed and high-fived and jived.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

From 2007, he has also been doing small roles in local Hindi-language films, playing a village head, a villain, even a police constable, mouthing dialogues and jiving to songs.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2022

Today, the “damas” or “big mothers” as the dancers are known, can be found dancing in the early mornings and evenings, blasting their stereos, waving fans and scarves, while jitterbugging, waltzing and jiving.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2021

Is hand jiving to Dancing Queen from inside a stationary Ford Focus on your bucket list?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2020

Another jazz star, trumpeter Roy Eldridge, told Esquire magazine in 1961, “I think he’s jiving, baby.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2015

It was rather like someone’s dad turning up at the school disco and jiving awkwardly with the kids.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall