quirting

present participle of quirt

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Then, in the early 2010s, fracking and horizontal drilling technology unlocked the deposits hiding in the shale bed and unleashed vast wealth that went beyond the county residents’ wildest dreams.
    Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The former high school football player who killed four people inside a Manhattan office tower that houses the headquarters of the NFL, and who blamed the league for hiding the dangers of brain injuries, was suffering from the degenerative brain disease CTE, a city medical examiner said Friday.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For Paul, campaigning to reelect Massie is a clear opportunity to emphasize some of his breaks with Trump while praising some of the president’s other actions, like moving to dismantle the Education Department or slashing foreign aid.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The sheer magnitude of the cuts—including a 40 percent slashing of money going to the National Institutes of Health—would do severe harm to biomedical researchers and the industries that serve or rely on them.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Only on particularly bumpy tarmac did the GTS-spec suspension become too jarring with the adaptive dampers stiffened up in sport mode, but switching them to normal offered the best of both worlds—excellent, composed body control and tuning that ironed out imperfections remarkably well.
    Peter Nelson, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Just before their latest stint on the road, the band swapped drummers with Foo Fighters, switching out Ilan Rubin for Josh Freese.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Within those questions is the greatness revealed when the image moves again, when charging Eagles safety Reed Blankenship lifts a hand to tip Mayfield’s fourth-quarter throw, when the flailing football tumbles into linebacker Jihaad Campbell’s arms near the pylon.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The film’s abundant humor and humanity are both rooted in DiCaprio’s ability to contain both of those people at once — to span the distance between those opposite shores while flailing towards each of them with equal desperation.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Imelda pulled away from the Bahamas Monday evening after lashing the islands with heavy rain, tropical storm-force winds and storm surge for two days.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Loners lashing out America has had genuine subversives and left-wing terror networks in the past.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Video from Camiguin Island, posted by the Philippines Department of the Interior and Local Government, showed fierce winds and ocean water whipping past houses onto a residential street.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
  • After whipping Minnesota 22-6 on the road in Week 2, the Falcons were shut out by the Panthers in Week 3.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Black Death and its aftermath saw a great resurgence of apocalyptic flagellation, with thousands of adherents flogging themselves up and down the Continent (the movement failed to take off in England, which figures).
    Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Use self-tanners instead of tanning outside or using a tanning bed.
    Alex Vance, Parents, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Quirting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirting. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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