gesture
Example Sentences
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Indeed, the very features that make gifts inefficient as market transactions—surprise, idiosyncrasy, miscalibration—are often what make them meaningful as social gestures.
Rather than chasing an expression, I was interested in stillness and repetition; how a simple gesture could feel amplified when echoed across a frame.
From Los Angeles Times
Videos - seen and verified by the BBC - show some of the protesters making rude gestures as others held signs.
From BBC
In a nation-wide gesture of "light over darkness", the windowsills of countless homes across Australia were lined with candles.
From BBC
The NBA levied the fine after the 31-year-old guard made the gesture as he walked off the court at halftime following an exchange of words with a game official.
From Los Angeles Times
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