girds 1 of 2

plural of gird

girds

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of gird

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of girds
Verb
Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling rebuked a Northwest Side alderman who expressed skepticism this week about Chicago’s year-over-year crime declines as the city girds itself ahead of a possible deployment of National Guard troops. Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girds
Noun
  • Egyptian influencers linked to intelligence fronts launched vicious personal attacks, including ethnic slurs, against the Saudi royal family and graphic insults targeting the crown prince.
    Khaled Hassan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • After a brief pause, the messages resumed months later and escalated to 40-50 a day, ranging from insults about Lauryn’s appearance to alarming threats against her relationship.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The case also wraps around all four side of the iPhone, with the same elevated lip that protects the screen.
    Ben Sin, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This technology uses a polymer that wraps around each lash to create a tube, which can make lashes look longer and flake less.
    Elizabeth Denton, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Likewise, endorsing the belief that a college degree is important for economic success is different than agreeing that the typical college curriculum equips students with essential job skills.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • This exposure not only equips future talent with real-world AI experience, but also ensures companies benefit from a workforce already trained in their technology.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • These actions reduce the mystery that surrounds technology and help employees see it as an ally for workplace innovation.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Others are greedily consuming matter that surrounds them in a flattened, swirling cloud called an accretion disk.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The civil-rights movement, which Williams so pointedly admires, furnishes an excellent example of this.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
  • To that end, the university’s Basic Needs Services office, which furnishes a variety of programs and support to help Titans experiencing unforeseen financial hardship, is offering Financial Wellness Peer Mentoring.
    Contributing Writer, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Each element encircles a central void, which Robertson describes as symbolic thresholds–portals between identities, spaces, and ideas.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, the vote passes and the Imperial Fleet encircles the planet, all according to plan.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Parker supplies a ready solution that nicely dovetails with Kennedy’s hostility toward vaccines, and pharmaceutical interventions against disease in general.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Just like an app store provides apps for your phone, npm supplies small pieces of code that developers use to build websites, mobile apps, and cloud platforms.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As a result of that and other outrages, in 2008 voters passed Proposition 11, the Voters FIRST Act.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Girds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girds. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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