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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

Ricky is getting a gest board on Krooked too.

From Time Magazine Archive

Preliminary estimates sug gest that the South and East China seas, the Bohai Gulf and the Yellow Sea could contain between 20 billion and 60 billion bbl. of recoverable oil.

From Time Magazine Archive

With it, he also took on one of his big gest problems.

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

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

From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace

Thou high director of the same, Assist mine artless pen, To write the gests of Britons stout, And acts of English men.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden

No doubt it was, once; but not in a chronicle of this sort, where the Cypriote gests must take a lowly place among others fair and foul of this King-errant.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett


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