spit
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It is in our nature to see something new and spit it out like we are 2 years old and PepsiCo has offered us a spoonful of broccoli.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
So why did I use a travel agent when I could get an AI chatbot to spit out a full itinerary in seconds?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
And if he has to spit in Hollywood’s face to save his own, well, apparently that’s fine too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Residents of the tiny coastal village of Zvernec were shocked two years ago when Kushner posted renderings of a planned resort on a spit of land where their parents and grandparents once raised potatoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
She coughed hard and blew her nose and spit out mouthfuls.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
These are not neutral bystanders being swept into a media spat.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
One of them apparently hooked the fish, but the shark spat out the bait, according to Kohanchi’s account of events in the video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Sheinbaum later said at her daily press conference that the former official at the center of the spat, ex-prime minister Betssy Chavez, was being flown on Friday aboard a Mexican military plane to Mexico.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
In the most extreme case, at one point it gave me less than 10 seconds to figure out a puzzle before a character spat out the solution.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Boaz spat, and for a wild moment, Clara thought he might actually manage to break free; she’d never seen him so mad.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
That’s because the first preseason practice of the Kalen DeBoer era was greeted with a sudden bout of Pacific Northwest weather, as rain spitted on the turf inside Husky Stadium Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
The whole world is invited, as many reputations as possible are spitted and turned slowly over a sizzling fire, the fumes purposely wafted this way and that.
From Time Magazine Archive
Defendant Browder instead chose to plead his own case, ably belabored the technical charge on which he was spitted.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet of spitted laham-mashwy and rice pilaff for the ship's officers.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last Merry stirred and whispered softly: ‘So far so good; but how are we to avoid being spitted?’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
It warrants no qualifiers, no deeper thought, because Boy George clearly didn’t think too hard about it himself before spitting it out into the world.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Now there is no day that people are not spitting at me,” said the German-born monk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Keenan recalled how the witness spoke of him "spitting out words" and being "disproportionately angry" at times.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Thrust into a position that was not his, Bradley had to endure the jeers of frenzied aficionados at the start of his professional career, along with spitting and tossed coins.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
She scrambled away from him on her hands and knees, spitting, scrubbing at her mouth.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
