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Recent Examples of grins
Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
TikTok @thanosthesaint Clearly enamored with the new game, Lavender grins up at the camera—and the video then switches to her doing the very same thing at a different time, and this time Thanos has all four legs in the air for easier access.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grins
Verb
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Meghan Markle smiles as a camera crew film her during 'With Love, Meghan' Season 2, which was released in August 2025.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Rondon smiles again at the memory while pointing out that his experience in being able to read the situation also helped.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The aim was to encode the various nuanced ways human faces transmit states of mind, and then to visualize them; smiles and frowns are the barest beginning.—
Dan Rockmore,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Everyone laughs about Laura’s over-protectiveness; her suffocating affection is a joke.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Wan laughs when recalling the day.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Grins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grins. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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