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In spite of, or perhaps because of its history, the town these days is a wellspring of devotion.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

“Carrie is an upsetting character that you wind up rooting for almost in spite of yourself,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

How are millennials doing it, in spite of the economic headwinds?

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

In spite of warnings from Cloudflare and AWS that "millions of hacking attempts" had been made every hour, there is also no evidence of large scale data breaches or cyber-attacks.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

In spite of her worries, Mrs. Madison wanted the White House staff to carry on as usual.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

“In this small, final, seemingly quiet but ultimately volcanic book of stories, Trevor denies and defies — maybe spites — the promise of decline,” Cynthia Ozick wrote here.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2020

These days, archbishops tend to have more Christian charity, while the petty spites and preposterous self-importance of their 1936 counterparts have been transferred to breakfast television presenters and so on.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020

It is tune the old cold warrior hung up his spites.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are "get-out-of-my-sight" scenes that have not been witnessed since Bette Davis hung up her spites.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her time with Tariq’s family always felt natural to Laila, effortless, uncomplicated by differences in tribe or language, or by the personal spites and grudges that infected the air at her own home.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

A sample: During the chorus, Swift proves once more that she’d make a fantastic BuzzFeed writer, telling us about yet another list she keeps of those who spited her.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2017

Last week Bush spited journalists who prematurely published the identity of his choice for Transportation Secretary by postponing the nomination of Chicago attorney Samuel Skinner.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Wouldn't it have spited us if Master Joe had been spoiled with a broken arm, and all the fun we've been planning gone for nothing?"

From Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

I'll tell you what: I've a jolly good mind to tell him myself beforehand, and then we'll see who's spited.'

From The Nether World by George Gissing

But Tiny lived, and spited them, and waxed fat and bunchy, while Bunch astonished them all by waning lean and tiny.

From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various

In Free, she depicts it as a bored child, picking her up and putting her down, chewing her up and spiting her out "a hundred times a day".

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2022

And spitting is still socially acceptable - be it chewing tobacco, sportsmen spiting on camera or Bollywood portrayals of men spitting while fighting each other.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2021

When James rejects the idea, Rhythm kidnaps Dom, spiting him away into a virtual “Serververse.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021

So do you not watch, to enlarge the collective spiting of him?

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2021

He couldn’t get his way this time—not after threatening their fives and sending them to make Achelous miserable for the sake of spiting Hera.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan