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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
a novel that captures dead-on the jive of young Hollywood hipsters
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as in jokes
to make jokes
our team was laughing and jiving after our surprise win
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Recent Examples of jives
Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Though using public transportation jives with the country’s Swisstainable initiative, which encourages visitors to get around without a car, Gambarogno is a bit harder to navigate as trains only run to Cadenazzo station, necessitating onward travel by bus.
—Lisa Kadane, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2025
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Edmond’s current job as a realtor jives well with her dream of opening a nonprofit group home.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Though using public transportation jives with the country’s Swisstainable initiative, which encourages visitors to get around without a car, Gambarogno is a bit harder to navigate as trains only run to Cadenazzo station, necessitating onward travel by bus.
—Lisa Kadane, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jives
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But Richardson-Sellers teases that much more will be revealed in the back half of the season.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Nov. 2025
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The trailer then teases how each artist will open up about the vulnerability behind each of their songs and the stories that brought them there.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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What someone jokes about reflects their inner values and unseen workings.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
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The comedian, who caused a stir in September by announcing her departure from SNL just one month before the show's 51st season, now jokes that leaving felt a lot like getting divorced.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Nov. 2025
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Many rank-and-file enlistees were also recent immigrants, and patriot regiments hummed with a cacophony of different tongues, accents, and dialects throughout the war.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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But Simeon Silverio, former publisher of the San Diego Asian Journal, said Bayani reflects only one of many Filipino dialects and would fail to represent the country’s diverse cultural groups, each of which has its own word for hero.—
Walker Armstrong,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Oct. 2025
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Rates for the winter journey to the North Pole start at approximately $42 for adults (and kids ages 12 and over) and just over $31 for children ages two to 11.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Nov. 2025
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Now, Wilson is showing off his brand's latest back-to-school collection as part of Macy's x Rookie kids fashion show, and his three eldest kids walked the runway.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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All the tired vocabularies have been thrown out, replaced by a mad, post-minimalist openness and pluralism.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
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As always, the panel of judges are full of quirks and quips with a montage showing Goldman, Brown and Fuller’s silliness.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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The two trade quips from Casablanca.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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This is why the delegates translated it into multiple languages immediately and sent copies intended for King Louis XVI of France and King Carlos III of Spain on the first ship bound for Europe on July 8.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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Music unites the interconnecting stories in this saga and expands its passions, with a sumptuous score by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens that taps into a wide range of American styles, idioms and amalgams, even as the second act turns more dissonant.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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The history of labor struggle, infused with religious idioms, is a source of identity and values evident in everything from union meetings in churches to prayers on picket lines.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Jives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jives. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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