jack

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as in pool
the total of the bets at stake at one time tension was mounting as the jack was getting bigger by the minute

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as in logger
a person whose job is to cut down trees we'll need to hire more jacks to get this forest cleared before winter

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Recent Examples of jack Officials recovered a 2-ton, rapid-pump floor jack from the scene. Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025 If space allows, let your kitchen island be the workhorse of the space not only taking on double-duty, but in becoming the jack of all trades. Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2024 At the front of the ThinkCentre mini PC, there is a single USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 port, a single USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port, and a headphone jack and power button. Tom Warren, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025 The port selection also includes an audio jack on the laptop’s right side and a (gasp!) HDMI port, full size, on its left. Joe Osborne, PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for jack 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jack
Noun
  • Listen to this article A man was arrested in connection with a robbery at a gas station in West Haven on Tuesday after he was allegedly found walking nearby with a stash of loose cash.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2025
  • After setting aside that initial pile of cash, however, 75% apparently goes to Trump’s company, and 25% gets split between other insiders, including the family of Steve Witkoff, Trump’s incoming special envoy to the Middle East.
    Dan Alexander, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Its audiences were known to fly Finnish flags in honor of Osmo Vänskä, who raised the orchestra to rare heights of excellence in a turbulent 19-year tenure as music director that ended in 2022.
    David Allen Jenn Ackerman, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The clip features Aldean performing in front of a courthouse festooned with an American flag; the performance footage is interspersed with images of burning flags and protesters clashing with police and robbing a convenience store.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And why does one guy with nothing to carry need a pickup truck and/or SUV? I’m ticked off that as a veteran public school teacher, school administrators are less concerned about academic rigor, and more concerned about parental appeasement.
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The guys on the bandstand are interpreting them horizontally, from left to right, one note at a time.
    Heather Augustyn, SPIN, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The sailors aboard the Aiviq and Kulluk exchanged worried messages.
    McKenzie Funk, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Simmons cleverly folds this fact into his thriller, in which his cast of sailors must fight a bloodthirsty monster while also gradually going insane.
    Calum Marsh, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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  • Edmonton Oilers general manager Stan Bowman has an opportunity to impact the prospect pool this spring with a successful signing season vital to the team’s future.
    Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The Blue Jays added their own additional bonus pool money in a trade hours before Sasaki’s decision Friday morning.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The buildings hearken back to days when miners and loggers crowded the main street’s saloons.
    Cassidy Randall, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Longwood’s modern history begins a half-century later, when the industrialist Pierre S. du Pont purchased the arboretum to save it from the logger’s ax.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The token, hosted on the Solana blockchain, has been limited to a supply of 200 million coins at launch before expanding to 1 billion over the next three years, according to the coin’s website.
    Ty Roush, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The Bucks and Suns ultimately had a coin flip in 1968 to determine which team would get the No. 1 pick in the 1969 NBA Draft.
    Damon Sayles, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
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  • One of Them Days’ studio, Sony Pictures Entertainment—which released the film under its Tri-Star Pictures banner—follows more of a set pattern.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Cynthia Robertson could be forgiven for feeling that the banner was aimed at her.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Jack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jack. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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