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Recent Examples of gimme
There are no gimmes in the playoffs, but meeting the winner of the Steelers-Texans matchup is the best-case scenario.
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025
Razorbacks should go hog wild in this mismatch, but there’s only a couple of other gimmes on the schedule.
—Marc Weiszer, The Tennessean, 20 Aug. 2024
Also: Week 2 and 3 nonconference foes Boise State and Oregon State are no gimmes.
—Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
Normally, this would be something of a gimme, but Thursday showed anything is possible.
—Bychris Morris, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2024
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025
Razorbacks should go hog wild in this mismatch, but there’s only a couple of other gimmes on the schedule.
—Marc Weiszer, The Tennessean, 20 Aug. 2024
Also: Week 2 and 3 nonconference foes Boise State and Oregon State are no gimmes.
—Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
Normally, this would be something of a gimme, but Thursday showed anything is possible.
—Bychris Morris, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gimme
Noun
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Though if Minnesota were to sell on the lower end, say for $1.5 billion, its walkaway number would be much lower unless the potential buyer agreed to absorb all of the debt, a scenario that is unlikely.—
Ken Rosenthal,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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Donald Trump is suffering an historic descent in the campaign’s final days, an ongoing freefall that’s turning what looked like a walkaway for the former president into what’s most likely a Kamala Harris victory.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
2 Nov. 2024
Noun
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The Bulls watched the Warriors put on an epic performance in a 132-111 win, erasing a 24-point third-quarter deficit and turning it into a laugher.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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Gasteyer recalled, eliciting laugher from fellow panelists Chris Kattan, Jon Lovitz, Mikey Day, Laraine Newman, Bobby Moynihan and Kevin Nealon.—
John Russell,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Maybe instead of rats the cartoon should show sitting ducks.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Feb. 2025
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To the Mach 4 missiles, capable of taking out jets maneuvering at high speed , a Shahed is a sitting duck.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.—
Cheri Lucas Rowlands,
Longreads,
16 Dec. 2024
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The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
10 Feb. 2024
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“Gimme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gimme. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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