as in smile
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Recent Examples of grin
Maquita Peters, NPR, 11 May 2025
When Evan, at 5, became infatuated with Super Mario video games, his parents got him a Mario costume — red hat, blue overalls — and photographed him grinning and holding a Mario plushy, an image that still hangs in the family home.
—Maggie Shannon, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 May 2025
Alcaraz stood there admiring the shot with a broad grin.
—Matias Grez, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
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Verb
Her mom grinned sheepishly, then went back to the oven and pulled out a smaller cake.
—Maquita Peters, NPR, 11 May 2025
When Evan, at 5, became infatuated with Super Mario video games, his parents got him a Mario costume — red hat, blue overalls — and photographed him grinning and holding a Mario plushy, an image that still hangs in the family home.
—Maggie Shannon, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
There’s a fascinating rawness to the way the film portrays Andy that echoes Mia (Sophie Wilde) in Talk to Me, someone who disguised her ravenous neediness with a grin and a joke, all her grief bottled up inside.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 May 2025
Alcaraz stood there admiring the shot with a broad grin.
—Matias Grez, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grin
Verb
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The guy smiled at that, probably not understanding a goddam word.—
Mike O’Brien,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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Left, the family smile on a trip to Disney not long after Elsie's diagnosis, and right, the girl now, aged 6.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
Noun
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Modern thinkers stopped using these concepts altogether except in quotation marks, with a wink, a smirk, and a glance backward toward the unscientific past.—
Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Harpers Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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Aimee Lou Wood, who played Chelsea, couldn’t believe the attention on her toothy smirk.—
Brittany Talarico,
People.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Carrington laughed with teammate Marina Mabrey after the incident.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
5 June 2025
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Carney almost laughed at the notion that young audiences, especially internationally, particularly care about the market size of the NBA Finalists.—
Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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“Grin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grin. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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