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gimlet

[gim-lit] / ˈgɪm lɪt /
NOUN
auger
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But the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland keeps a gimlet eye on inflation data, and it has some estimates.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 19, 2025

His Napoleon views the world with a gimlet eye and firmly compressed lips.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

If you order a gimlet and they offer you, Roses, then you should leave the bar, maybe even the neighborhood, because that is ridiculous as it is gross.

From Salon • May 8, 2023

Both novels were ambitious works that sought to dismantle the unfulfilled promises of America through the gimlet eye of the white working class.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2023

But he is black-haired and gold-skinned and though his eyes are the same pale gray as the Commandant’s, there is no trace there of the gimlet flatness that defines most Masks.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir