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spit

[spit] / spɪt /




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Miller says she has a new appreciation for any piece of writing that predates ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022, and for words that an LLM would be unlikely to spit out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

General Services Administration and billed under the tagline “Whatever you need from government, start here,” the chatbot is designed to scour federal websites and spit out official information in response to users’ queries.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

"They give it to the babies, who chew on it themselves and spit out the solids".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

They were like, “Oh, we have a spit bucket.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The unicorn dipped its mouth and sucked them from his palm, leaving it wet with unicorn spit.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

In a spat with Altman on X, Musk said Altman’s money had been refunded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

But after circling a few times, the shark spat out the bait, leaving fishermen on the pier stunned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

He is not alone in having then been chewed up and spat out at Real Madrid.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

These are not neutral bystanders being swept into a media spat.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

I blinked salt out of my eyes and spat out another mouthful of sour seawater.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

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

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

He raised his head slowly, looking across at the spitted chickens revolving before the low blue rotisserie flames.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

I think, “No, I’m not spitting up perfectly good chicken” — and it was really good chicken.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

“Now there is no day that people are not spitting at me,” said the German-born monk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

She gets him within spitting distance of Downing Street just in time for her husband to dump her.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

I’m always hopping on and off the bench, pacing back and forth, rattling the safety fence, and spitting sunflower seeds.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner




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