jives 1 of 2

plural of jive

jives

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of jive

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for jives
Verb
  • While fans of the whodunit franchise have a couple of months to go before finally getting some answers, the first trailer for Wake Up Dead Man teases much of the fun to come — including the identity of the latest murder victim.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Rosenfield, also the author of books like 2021’s No One Will Miss Her, teases that the novel is perfect for thriller fans craving something more.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hughes jokes that Excel might be his biggest competitor, because many local authorities still rely on elaborate spreadsheets built on institutional knowledge and heuristics.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Speaking to Variety from his home in the mountains of Idaho, Glenn jokes about the world-spanning nature of the nomination.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Tibetan diaspora encompasses people from three historical regions and five major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, each of which has its own subcultures, dialects, and histories.
    Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Google says this feature supports more than 70 languages—fewer than the 251 total, including regional and national dialects, that this app supports after a series of linguistic expansions.
    Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • There’s also never really a good explanation for why the population of campers has dwindled, beyond Charlie Brown telling Sally that kids her age just want to watch TV instead of heading outdoors for fun.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For decades, BCIs were limited to toy demos and small vocabularies.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • This indicates that dogs focus on broad sound patterns rather than the finer phonetic details humans rely on, which may explain why their vocabularies remain relatively small.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Workshops encouraged participants to write in the languages most natural to them, often leading to hybrid forms that reflected Miami’s cultural mix.
    Jonel Juste, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These systems can interpret regional slang, idioms and context-specific expressions, hence minimizing both over-censorship and under-enforcement.
    Anees Ali Khan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Allusions to myths, fables, and riffs on common idioms abound, many of them evocative and quite funny.
    Lora Kelley, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2025
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