grinch
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Signs like “Seat belts are in, everybody’s wearing them” and “Don’t be a grinch, let them merge” are to be phased out by 2026.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2024
I don’t mean to be a grinch; Christmas and New Year’s are worthy observations, not media distractions, but could the timing be worse?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
A variant first detected in India, known as delta, exploded across the South before blanketing the country, only to be upstaged by the new and faster-moving omicron variant, which played the Christmas grinch.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 25, 2021
There’s also tree decorating, stressful last-minute mall shopping and Wolverine being an absolute grinch but saving the life of a young underground Morlock.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
Photograph: Gilbert Carrasquillo/ FilmMagic Last night Mr Jack Dee, the grinch of standup comedy, brought the fourth series of his sitcom Lead Balloon to a close.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2011
Earlier in the year, it looked as if grinches would rule, as markets were damaged by tariff and geopolitical turmoil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
Everywhere I turned, I saw decorations for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas all merged into a torture chamber bedecked with lighted trees, inflatable grinches, pumpkins, scarecrows and turkey fryers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
But as he stood at his corner on Saturday evening, White told the station that two grinches began pelting him with eggs.
From Fox News ● Dec. 22, 2021
People who complain about them are sourpusses and grinches.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2015
But she feared turning over rights to use the elf, lest the networks prove to be corporate grinches.
From Inc ● Nov. 23, 2011
