in greeting

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: as a way to greet someone
He held out his hand in greeting.

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The two women are seen kissing each other’s cheeks in greeting and chatting together. Ellie Hall, Vulture, 9 July 2024 Stella, the family’s elderly dog, wiggles and weaves around my legs in greeting. Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023 Kate Middleton stopped to have a casual chat with Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz at Wimbledon, but was the couple too casual in greeting the royal? Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023 The maneki neko is a blank-eyed cat figurine — usually white, often ceramic, its expression inscrutable but benign — with a bell around its neck and one paw raised near its ear as if in greeting. Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for in greeting 

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“In greeting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20greeting. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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