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
I will take down any amount of food and I will not ask for a spit bucket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The images were of 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
He is in the middle of a public spat with Pennsylvania officials, including Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, after the state health department reported two measles-associated deaths involving infants.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
But many small and medium-size Canadian business owners are expected to bear the brunt of the pain, and some fear they could be put out of business without a resolution to the trade spat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
He is not alone in having then been chewed up and spat out at Real Madrid.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
He spat the name through his bleeding lips.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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
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
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
They had been standing over the fire with a spitted pig, a yearling.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Stocks are spitting out a smaller share of their returns in dividend income, a challenge for those who lean on steady cash flows to cover daily expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
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
They came together to negotiate a peace, and once the negotiations were concluded, they marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
