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gest

[jest] / dʒɛst /


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If a phrase sparks the gest of song memory endures longer — like the hum of a taut string in the dark.

From New York Times Jan. 28, 2021

Sire: I respectfully sug gest and in your behalf implore that you relieve me completely from all my duties in connection with your American tour.

From Time Magazine Archive

Arturo Frondizi, 53, President of Argentina and currently his country's most unpopular man, was waiting to see whether he would be allowed to remain as elected Chief Executive of South America's second big gest nation.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most significant fact about Salazar's relationship with the Countess is that not even the gossipy Portuguese, not even Salazar's thousands of enemies, sug gest that she is his mistress.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You could see your neighbor very dimly. Those ten seconds were the lon- gest ten seconds that I ever experienced.”

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

You don’t want to drop $1 trillion in capital expenditures “and it’s the second mouse that gests the cheese,” Janasiewicz said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

His new novel sug gests that he may be suffering from over production.

From Time Magazine Archive

The antients represented the 143 passions, by gests, colors and sounds.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini

In Scotland, Huchowne’s works might no doubt have been regarded as the standard romances of the period, but that they were the only English gests is indeed very doubtful.

From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris

Thus had Achilles his owne gests design'd, He had his genius Homer far outshin'd.

From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace




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