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Recent Examples of jaw
Noun
Witnesses say slow play was the cause of the altercation with the blue shirt group having hit into a slower group which lead to one man suffering a broken jaw. Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025 There are several common causes of jaw pain, all requiring different therapy interventions. Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
So the Lombardi Trophy returns to the City of Brotherly Love, where Eagles coach Nick Sirianni jawed with the city’s notoriously surly and demanding fans earlier this season. Sean Gregory, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025 That play included Kelce jawing at Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jaw
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jaw
Noun
  • That chat is under review by the Pentagon Inspector General for the handling of sensitive information.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • But the other chat group included people with no clear reason for receiving the sensitive information.
    Quil Lawrence, NPR, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Today's top stories President Trump scolded Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday after Russia launched a deadly strike on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 25 Apr. 2025
  • That, in the end, is the heart of the spectacle of Noem’s militaristic videos and Leavitt’s scolding and lies.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • And the volunteer who can’t write a check but has spent every weekend knocking on doors and talking to neighbors about this campaign’s promise of a better future for Fort Worth.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Across the street stood about a dozen police officers talking among themselves because there was no activity requiring their intervention.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • It's aimed towards trucks and sport utilities, whose designs usually include all-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, and whose chassis are more vulnerable to wheel chatter and heavier loads.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Panthers: Jalon Walker, LB, Georgia AS: There’s been a lot of chatter about where Walker should play at the NFL level.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Conor Heffernan, who lectures on the history of sports and fitness at Ulster University, in Ireland, said the current vogue for biohacking, and its protein boosterism, reeks of snake oil.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Her quotidian life was lecturing at a college in Aberdeen, close to where she was born, and the travel and mountaineering a teacher’s schedule enables.
    Sadie Stein, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • During her multi-hour hair routine, Elisabeth conversed with her Greek tutor and worked on translation activities.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025
  • In yet another detail pulled from Persona, players can converse with the cast around the bonfire and learn about their backstories.
    George Yang, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Each monthly box includes three recipe guides, skill lessons, a kitchen tool, a kitchen project, an apron patch, table talk cards, and a grocery list.
    Jessica Booth, Parents, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Almost everything about Thanksgiving, from travel to table talk about politics, has the potential to become fraught.
    Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Rourke was formally reprimanded by the show and ultimately booted from the house.
    Mikelle Street, Them., 23 Apr. 2025
  • And when no one was fired or even reprimanded for the FUBAR, the accountability Hegseth promised had seemingly gone AWOL.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Jaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jaw. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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