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spit

[spit] / spɪt /




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Residents of the tiny coastal village of Zvernec were shocked two years ago when Kushner posted renderings of a planned resort on a spit of land where their parents and grandparents once raised potatoes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

And you can put stuff in a guy’s mouth and have him spit it out, but to really get a good projectile vomit, you need to have some sort of cannon apparatus.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

"AI can spit your idea back and forth, challenge it and advise you on what you need to consider that you might no obviously see."

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

LinkedIn is peppered with stories of job listings requiring candidates to take questionnaires or use specific words or phrases in cover letters, in order to avoid applications spit out by bots.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

In addition to the periodic glitches and blackouts, there were times when electronic computers would spit out answers so unexpected that it wasn’t clear if the machines were up to snuff.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Sheinbaum later said at her daily press conference that the former official at the center of the spat, ex-prime minister Betssy Chavez, was being flown on Friday aboard a Mexican military plane to Mexico.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Police investigators learned that a man had spat on a Tesla that was stopped at the intersection.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

In the most extreme case, at one point it gave me less than 10 seconds to figure out a puzzle before a character spat out the solution.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

A nasty spat over a huge collection of allegedly stolen Star Wars Lego sets has turned this quiet suburb upside down.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

Its beautiful surface had gone blank, and it spat back her letter.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

That’s because the first preseason practice of the Kalen DeBoer era was greeted with a sudden bout of Pacific Northwest weather, as rain spitted on the turf inside Husky Stadium Thursday.

From Seattle Times Aug. 4, 2022

Bringing a touch of Parisian gallantry to wilderness New York, he cried: "Never was a leg of mutton spitted with greater majesty."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet of spitted laham-mashwy and rice pilaff for the ship's officers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The whole world is invited, as many reputations as possible are spitted and turned slowly over a sizzling fire, the fumes purposely wafted this way and that.

From Time Magazine Archive

Back at the shelter, he plucked and spitted the woodgrouse, and set it to roast over the fire.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

It warrants no qualifiers, no deeper thought, because Boy George clearly didn’t think too hard about it himself before spitting it out into the world.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

Instead of spitting at them, the students greeted the white-veiled nuns with a warm “Shabbat Shalom!”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Keenan recalled how the witness spoke of him "spitting out words" and being "disproportionately angry" at times.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

Thrust into a position that was not his, Bradley had to endure the jeers of frenzied aficionados at the start of his professional career, along with spitting and tossed coins.

From Barron's Jun. 8, 2026

“First, your grandmother is the spitting image of Snow White: pale skin, black hair, beautiful...”

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley




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