gee
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So the Chancellor is trying to use this moment of a tangible cut to every household's energy bill as a launching pad for a wider attempt to gee up consumer and business confidence.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
It’s an argument that Superman’s golly gee spirit is his greatest asset, no subversion necessary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
"It was like they wanted to do something, but then really didn't put the effort into it and then said, gee, it didn't work," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
“And then when the finance company says, ‘Oh, gee, sorry, we can’t actually get the loan on those terms, could you sign some worse terms?’
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025
“Like? Gosh! This is my lucky day. Well, gee, thanks, Miss....”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
"It's about finding out what makes people tick, what motivates them. "People such as Ian Botham were good when you geed them up.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2015
"It's great credit to the managers down there who have really responded to the threat of relegation and geed their teams up. It's going to be a grandstand finish."
From BBC ● May 9, 2015
A giant owl mascot geed up the crowd.
From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2014
He said he doesn't know he does it, and said: 'That's just the way I play and I have to shout to get myself geed up for a game.'
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2011
He lifted Everilda in, and said 'Gee up!' to his patent carriage, and the intelligent creature geed up right into the air and flew away.
From Oswald Bastable and Others by C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock
You saw Walker geeing the fans up and everyone felt together.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2021
Eager to work on issues such as attention span, Williams turns guinea pig, submitting to magnetic brain stimulation to achieve better focus, geeing up creativity by means of electrodes over her prefrontal cortex, and more.
From Nature ● Jan. 24, 2017
Mum busies herself around Dad, cajoling, geeing him up, trying to ignite something in him.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2015
The main value of celebrity campaigners is in geeing up the flagging activists who really get out the vote.
From Economist ● Apr. 23, 2015
Usually there is much geeing and hawing, excitement, and continual noise and expletives, about a job of this kind.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
