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But as they began house hunting in April they quickly realized that, in spite of elevated listing prices and mortgage rates, the Peabody market was exceptionally hot.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

So why, in spite of those remarks, did he lose a Republican primary in Tennessee?

From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026

They miraculously win a ton of games in spite of microscopic budgets and rosters largely devoid of household names.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Insects are the most diverse and abundant group of animals on the planet, but in spite of this dominance they are the most threatened.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

In spite of the enormous risks, Kennedy decided that the Soviet missiles had to go.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

“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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It is tune the old cold warrior hung up his 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

There was anger in the eyes of all; they were spited at not receiving the riscatta.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid

Of course he spited the poor young chap, and how could the fact be denied when the poor ghost had come back to ask for his blood?

From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge

It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin- grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.

From Holiday Romance by Charles Dickens

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