hiccup
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The result is a hiccup for Russell, who has a golden opportunity to make up ground on team-mate Antonelli, who has a 30-place grid penalty.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
They don’t think the labor market is is suffering a hiccup every summer.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
The artificial-intelligence boom could see a hiccup, along with the torrent of capital spending that has kept deals flowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
This isn’t its first hiccup in recent months.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
“Mad-Eye,” echoed Hagrid, a little late, with a hiccup.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
It’s a lesson in framing: Own operational hiccups directly while projecting steady authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Booking.com and sister brands like Priceline, Kayak and OpenTable are pouring hundreds of millions into AI tools to smooth out travel hiccups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
But I promise to be vulnerable with you about the hiccups, to celebrate the wins — and to always translate financial jargon into tips we can actually use.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
SpaceX will aspire the next time around to execute a launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn and landing burn of the booster offshore without hiccups.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
The boy’s sobs softened to pitiful hiccups, then spiked again to shrieks as Leafie felt his arm.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
In one July 8 clip, Bolsonaro hiccuped approximately 14 times within the first minute.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021
The patient with the longest recorded case, according to Guinness World Records, was Charles Osborne of Anthon, Iowa, who hiccuped for 68 years straight.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Even as Europe, particularly Greece, has struggled, the U.S. market has barely hiccuped.
From US News ● Nov. 6, 2015
But when Wilder's routine hiccuped regularly in the 1960s, he lost that explosive snap in his barbed approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2015
He and Jam had been lying on a grassy hill behind the school, one they liked to roll down, watching the sky bump and skip in hiccuped blue as gravity played with them.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
The 15-time major winner, 50, can be seen co-operating with authorities and then hiccuping while he is being driven away in the back of the police car.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
Within seconds, I’m crying, sweating and hiccuping — simultaneously.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022
The hiccuping ultimately "escalated to…a good deal of hiccup-induced puking," he said.
From Fox News ● Dec. 11, 2021
Others, though, would work on exams with hiccuping computers, at uncomfortable tables with other children or adults making noise nearby.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2021
He wept on and on, hiccuping to catch his breath.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
"The smallest things upset me. The other day I jumped when a woman in the street hiccupped as she walked past me."
From Fox News ● Dec. 5, 2019
He hiccupped in late April, allowing three runs in two innings, but the Nationals had seen what they needed to.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2019
Just as notable is the fact that Future Brown sought out women like Shawnna, 3D Na’Tee, and Maluca, whose careers have hiccupped, often through little fault of their own.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2015
For days, he hiccupped blood, feeling each day was his last, until finally, one morning, he woke up and knew he would live.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2014
I hiccupped, finally finding the bananas you’d refused to eat that evening and handing you one.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
If you are gargling at the same time that you are hiccupping, you might aspirate water.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
“I still write too many of her patented hiccupping, chicken-bone sentences,” said the L.A.-based writer and founder of Boyle Heights’ Libros Schmibros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
Lincoln was hiccupping a lot in the third trimester.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2021
In the many recent presidential live streams, Bolsonaro’s hiccuping is evident, and he has prefaced some appearances by acknowledging his hiccupping and disrupted speech.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021
Tucker had a squeaky laugh that sounded as if he were hiccupping.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
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