twit

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Recent Examples of twit Nosy birds twit and tweet from their leafy vantage points. Variety, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twit
Verb
  • This can occur if the blades are too dull to cut through the grass, resulting in torn or ragged grass standing at uneven heights.
    Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Advertisement The two men, ragged and sleepless, belongings jammed into two battered pick-ups, were regrouping Wednesday morning in La Cañada Flintridge, a few miles northwest of Altadena.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • All kidding aside, the Wild have surpassed the expectations of many, including The Athletic staff.
    Michael Russo, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Justin Sherman: The TikTok Discourse Is Nonsense Anyone who perceives that the Chinese government can't pick a tech company in its borders and coerce it to support state efforts is kidding themselves.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Activision teases five new multiplayer maps being added to Black Ops 6 in the upcoming season, with two of them coming a few weeks after the update.
    Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Though Evans comforted Bunny in person, Hot Ones made sure to tease him a little bit in post-production.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Hegseth refused to rule out carrying out an order from Trump to take over Greenland or the Panama Canal — notions the president-elect has floated in recent weeks — when quizzed by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii).
    Avery Lotz, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Outside of regular gameplay — and in a popular video shared to the show's Instagram page — Jennings quizzed Suttell.
    Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Many folks ribbed the hard partying PGA great about his unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 18 Jan. 2025
  • And LaMelo surely will rib Lonzo about getting past Lonzo for a key drive to the bucket in the final minutes, drawing a foul on big brother, and also playing solid defense on Lonzo during a potential game-tying 3-pointer in the closing seconds.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 18 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • And that doesn’t necessarily jive with the perception of the team, say, in the regular season.
    Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Ready or not, the Dancing With the Stars competitors are jamming, jiving, and foxtrotting in full throttle.
    Calie Schepp, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Five young Spanish-speaking friends razz each other to jump in from the rocky ledge.
    Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The display ends and Prabowo strolls the ranks of recruits, asking their home province, their university major, and razzing a couple of the stoutest about their paunch.
    Charlie Campbell / Jakarta, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Trump hosted liberal Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau to discuss tariffs and has been taunting him since, suggesting Canada should be a U.S. state.
    Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The others will taunt me for trying to excel at my work in the laundry.
    Margaret Lyons, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Twit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twit. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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