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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She also has to di gest the fact that her half sister, too, was in love with the B.B.

From Time Magazine Archive

It does sug gest, however, that all education should ideally be integrated with workaday life, using flexible, out-of-school approaches that make education start in very early childhood and end only with death.

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

He does not assert that the earth was stopped on its axis, but sug- gests "refraction" as a way out of the difficulty.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

The merry gests and marvellous exploits of the incomparable George Borrow—these form the unique theme of our Gitano Crusoe. 

From George Borrow Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 by Seccombe, Thomas




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