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Recent Examples of gimme
Normally, this would be something of a gimme, but Thursday showed anything is possible.
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Bychris Morris, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2024
That’s not to say the trip to Kentucky, the neutral site opener against Clemson and the home game against Tennessee are gimmes.
—Seth Emerson, The Athletic, 27 Aug. 2024
Few words are more synonymous with Disney movies than wish, and taking that word and turning it into a story in which a winsome young heroine is partnered with a literal wishing star to stop a power-mad leader seems like a gimme.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
My biggest thing with Sam M. is that this entire date is such a Bachelorette gimme.
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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Bychris Morris, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2024
That’s not to say the trip to Kentucky, the neutral site opener against Clemson and the home game against Tennessee are gimmes.
—Seth Emerson, The Athletic, 27 Aug. 2024
Few words are more synonymous with Disney movies than wish, and taking that word and turning it into a story in which a winsome young heroine is partnered with a literal wishing star to stop a power-mad leader seems like a gimme.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
My biggest thing with Sam M. is that this entire date is such a Bachelorette gimme.
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gimme
Noun
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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
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Industry representatives have said there should be a distinction between walkaway deaths at those different types of facilities, but the Post investigation found that state investigators issue violations for failures in both types of settings after fatal wandering deaths.—
Douglas MacMillan,
Washington Post,
25 Jan. 2024
Noun
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The hosts trailed 20-8 when Dutcher made his hands into a T … and responded with a 40-4 run to turn catastrophe into celebration, lethargy into laugher.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Jan. 2025
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Travis Kelce caught one of those touchdowns, and later threw a scoring pass to Byron Pringle in the fourth quarter as the Chiefs won a laugher.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The alternative: Residents risk being sitting ducks for future blazes. Consider Pacific Palisades.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC News,
22 Jan. 2025
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Which had those seals, as Oats put it, out there in the open like sitting ducks.—
CJ Moore,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 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 30 Jan. 2025.
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