jag
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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
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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
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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
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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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