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Recent Examples of gimme
Also: Week 2 and 3 nonconference foes Boise State and Oregon State are no gimmes.
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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
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
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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
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
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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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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
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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
Noun
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This sitting duck would be another victim in the submarine’s reign of terror.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Feb. 2025
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The alternative: Residents risk being sitting ducks for future blazes. Consider Pacific Palisades.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC News,
22 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 22 Feb. 2025.
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