jags

noun

plural of jag
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as in binges

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as in barbs

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  1. binges
  2. barbs
  3. sprees
  4. spikes
  5. recurrences
  6. snags
  7. pickups
  8. stickers
Noun
  • Sprawling suburbs leave little room for walkable hubs while endless screen time – from TikTok scrolling to Netflix binges – has replaced real-world connection.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The post-pandemic YOLO spending binges have given way to micro-indulgences.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Definition of binges
Noun
  • The debate, which drew around 200 people to Grace Place in Berthoud, was largely made up of attacks — with Rutinel, a Democrat, and Evans, a Republican, trading barbs and accusations during the hourlong affair.
    — John Aguilar, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Her barbs are sharp enough to bring even Regina George to tears.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of barbs
Noun
  • Anthropic, Meta and Google have since reported similar autonomous hacking sprees.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, every day, SNAP theft sprees keep popping up in new corners of the country.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of sprees
Noun
  • The team identified a continuous midline feature that began as a fleshy crest along the neck and trunk and transitioned over the hips into a single row of spikes running down the tail — each spike positioned over a single vertebra and fitted to each other.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of spikes
Noun
  • Clinical trials had shown that, for this condition, antibiotics had little or no effect on mortality, the need for surgery, complications, or recurrences.
    — Paula Span, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Patients who don’t have a complete response to their initial chemo and immunotherapies are at higher risk for developing potential future recurrences and for metastatic disease.
    — Maggie Donahue, HEALTH, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of recurrences
Noun
  • Efforts to move the games to larger area venues, such as Gas South Arena (around 13,000 seats) and Georgia Tech’s McCamish Pavilion (8,600 seats), have hit snags, according to USA Today.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Gurman claims the foldable is still on track for this fall, despite chatter about manufacturing snags.
    — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of snags
Noun
  • Kia Tasman Courtesy Kia Kia expects to sell 90,000 pickups a year in North America and claim 7% of the midsize pickup segment by 2034, according to Automotive News.
    — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
Definition of pickups
Noun
  • But the prices for the vast majority of stickers are pretty low, which means that no vulture is out there buying up all the sticker packs and trying to resell them at inflated prices to impressionable children hoping to win the lottery.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
Definition of stickers
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