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Recent Examples of gimme
That’s not to say the trip to Kentucky, the neutral site opener against Clemson and the home game against Tennessee are gimmes.
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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
No game in the NFL is a gimme, but the Broncos enter their most daunting stretch of the year after Sunday against the Panthers.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2024
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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
No game in the NFL is a gimme, but the Broncos enter their most daunting stretch of the year after Sunday against the Panthers.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gimme
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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
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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
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Gi-hun and Player 001 debated about whether to proactively attack the other side during the night, rather than just be sitting ducks.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 Dec. 2024
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Both Vicario and Forster, his deputy, have had their share of close shaves this season, most recently at Bournemouth a couple of weeks ago, where Kulusevski felt like a sitting duck for Tyler Adams when the straight pass arrived.Stuart James, The Athletic, 19 Dec. 2024
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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 20 Jan. 2025.
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