spit
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But even I still get nervous sometimes when asking for a deal, feeling like I have to physically swallow my nerves just to spit the words out.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
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
They say dating apps that spit out an unlimited menu of potential partners make it too easy to miss obvious red flags.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The highly contagious illness is caused by bacteria growing in the body, usually the lungs, and is spread through the air when people cough, sneeze, or spit.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
The Bank of Canada announces an interest-rate decision at 9:45 a.m., where its assessment of the U.S.-Canadian trade spat will be in focus.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
These are not neutral bystanders being swept into a media spat.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Police investigators learned that a man had spat on a Tesla that was stopped at the intersection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"I spat it out, but there was some left. The taste of this food will stay with me the rest of my life," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
It was hard for Natalie to stand, to keep her feet planted in the shifting water, but she braced her legs and held her mother up as she coughed and spat and retched.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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
Bringing a touch of Parisian gallantry to wilderness New York, he cried: "Never was a leg of mutton spitted with greater majesty."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Back at the shelter, he plucked and spitted the woodgrouse, and set it to roast over the fire.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Unfortunately for Khan and Fabre, not everyone is sipping and spitting at Medoc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
With the biggest global opening weekend in history, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is cleaning up at the box office in a manner that left “The Odyssey” spitting sand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Keenan recalled how the witness spoke of him "spitting out words" and being "disproportionately angry" at times.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Mother Ashton,” she trilled, spitting out a piece of bark and extending both arms upward, as if offering an embrace.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
