Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Graeme Burk, a Canadian broadcasting historian who edited Newman's memoirs for publication, said none of that would have happened without Hailey's play.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
“It made sense to do a huge price drop — and it worked,” Brenda Burk, Holland’s real-estate agent with Coldwell Banker Schneidmiller Realty, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025
Despite state officials from both parties explaining that machines could indeed read such ballots, a woman named Staci Burk quickly filed a lawsuit regarding the issue.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2024
“The airport has served as an economic driver for the town and for the county,” said Leesburg Mayor Kelly Burk.
From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023
To Frederic Burk, president of the San Francisco State Normal School, I am most under obligation in connection with the preparation of this book.
From Common Science by Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
