gift
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A transgender actor playing a Greek soldier who tricks the Trojans into thinking the wooden horse is really a gift has sparked outrage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The purchase was funded by a gift from the Bukhman Foundation.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Mottet so far has received a $10 gift card in exchange for posts including videos of her trying on new clothes in a Target changing room and a roundup of her weekly Target shop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
During dinner, each guest is given a traditional koha, meaning gift or offering, between the starter and main course.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
I’m about to tell Pua about my resolution to use my gift the right way when Leo boards the bus.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Sculpting her natural gifts of wit and brazenness into a living artwork dazzled all who came within her orbit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Of Gen Z homebuyers, 13% used family gifts in order to cover the down payment.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
The OEC would advise the justices on recusal issues, gifts and financial disclosures, and unauthorized disclosure of official court documents, like the Dobbs leak.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Most schools have rules over the value of gifts teacher can accept, limited to £30 or £50 typically, and discourage cash gifts altogether.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Aunt J goes to her room and comes back with gifts in hand.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Noting both the profound sadness and farcical tragedy ahead “if those who are gifted stay silent,” Lillian Smith in 1951 hoped for a better future.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Thousands of the jammers have already been gifted to Kyiv to help its armed forces maintain drone operations, according to London.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Days before, he had helped to write articles about security concerns involving a jet gifted to the U.S. by the Qatari government that was being used as Air Force One.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
"All those men have been gifted world titles and never actually fought anyone to get them," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Terman's gifted children, in short, rarely ended up being as special as they initially promised to be.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
Warren Buffett did not donate to the Gates Foundation this year, ending a two-decade run of gifting Berkshire Hathaway shares to the philanthropy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Towering over all of them, arms stretched out as if gifting all these heroes to the world, is Chávez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
While individuals who are at least age 70 ½ can gift using QCDs, the gifting tools are typically used starting at age 73 to manage the tax consequences of mandatory withdrawals from IRAs.
From Barron's ● May 9, 2026
What are your thoughts on this versus annual gifting?
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
And it was Duryodhana, the eldest of the one hundred Kaurava brothers, that came to his rescue by gifting him a kingdom of his own.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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