JAG Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

jag

noun

Definition of jag

as in spree

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Recent Examples of jag Bowyer was returning to California from a jag in Vegas. — David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025 That’s how music became the unofficial theme of our India jag and an enduring source of fascination for him. — Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 30 Apr. 2025 There’s the deep sea portion—the Davy Jones’ Locker realm where only top-secret missions and movie directors on submarine jags dare venture. — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2024 The guard said 'stand right here' and the Queen came by driving herself home from church in her jag [Jaguar car]. — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024 Trump appears to go on posting jags, sometimes well after midnight, rattling off Truths multiple times a minute. — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024 Since its buying jag began, the company has filed suit in federal court against a group of families the firm purchased property from, seeking $510 million. — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023 On Rogan, Cooper went on a jag essentially about how he was not given free rein to empathize with Nazis and how antisemites were being unfairly banished from the public square. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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Noun

And her giving spree shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon, despite having donated nearly half of her net worth.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 July 2026
My spree took under 20 minutes and almost no effort, a much easier proposition than hitting multiple stores to try to find these pieces.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026

Definition of spree

Noun

Crime, however, has been on a steady decline since 2024, following a spike during the COVID-19 pandemic.

— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
But David Campbell, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, points out that other surveys that measure weekly attendance haven’t shown the same spike among young men.

— Chantelle Lee, Time, 9 July 2026

Definition of spike

Noun

The Peacock drama felt engineered for nothing more than capturing a weekend crowd, the kind of binge that dominates social media for three days and is then forgotten entirely.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2026
But Junior Caminero, who celebrated his 23rd birthday Sunday but didn’t extend his homer binge of 11 over 11 games, popped out, which ended Lambert’s day.

— Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026

Definition of binge

Noun

Even if today’s flight had hit snags, China still has other reusable rockets waiting in the wings.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
But the county ran into significant snags on its portion, including a costly and prolonged environmental impact study required for federal funding.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026

Definition of snag

Noun

At the end of the first season, when Rhaenyra’s son Lucerys visits Storm’s End to petition House Baratheon to join their cause, he and Alicent’s second son, Aemond, trade barbs.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
In a decision about gun regulations, Alito and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson traded barbs about whether historical gun laws that discriminated against Black people were relevant to the case.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 26 June 2026

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