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jag

[jag] / dʒæg /
NOUN
an intoxicated condition
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NOUN
a spree
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Since its buying jag began, the company has filed suit in federal court against a group of families the firm purchased property from, seeking $510 million.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2023

Or has he been on a crying jag?

From Slate Aug. 24, 2023

And last autumn only about 50% of health and social are workers came forward for a jag.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2023

When state lawmakers gathered this past week to fight about guns, they ended up going off on a jag about something else entirely:

From Seattle Times Mar. 11, 2023

“Maybe when that boy is mowing the front I’ll come over,” Biddy say, and I could see a cryin’ jag about to commence.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

We are told that he has frequent crying jags and bouts of insomnia, but we don’t feel his despair.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2025

He was nicknamed "two jags" by the press after it emerged he had two Jaguar cars.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2024

The line bends and twists, jolts and jags.

From Washington Post Jul. 13, 2022

There are jags of tears and “what ifs” even when you aren’t forced to place a child for adoption.

From New York Times Dec. 18, 2021

I drew breaths in ragged jags, my heart raced, and my skin burned.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Tied to the mast of his ship as he and his crew pass the singing sirens, adorned on the jagged rocks at sea, Odysseus screams out with pain and desire.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

The title character disdains the common folk, and the play’s complicated political discussion and harsh, jagged poetry aren’t what most picnicking playgoers are after.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

A small, goggle-eyed creature with pointy ears and a mouthful of jagged teeth has somehow become one of the defining consumer products this decade.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

The jagged course of the Dormition Cathedral’s own history tracks Ukraine’s brutal fight for independence since it was first built nearly 1,000 years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

I see distant jagged mountain bluffs touch the sky.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Murray, all scampering pace and jagging sidesteps, would be a crowd-pleasing pick.

From BBC May 5, 2025

We bushwhacked until we came to a series of ditches, eight feet deep or more, jagging this way and that every few yards, sometimes intersecting with other deep, zigzaggy ditches.

From New York Times Aug. 21, 2014

Bobbing and jagging, the path looks cluttered and wild, but it’s just how molecules move in space.

From Scientific American Jun. 28, 2013

Morkel follows up with beautiful ball jagging away from Cook.

From The Guardian Aug. 17, 2012

He’d gone a little different with the Mohawk too, buzzing it close to his scalp and jagging it so it looked like a thunderbolt.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin




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