Example Sentences
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Presprouting gooses corms into an even earlier bloom.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2024
The experimental vaccine takes an entirely different approach: It gooses the body's preexisting supply of pathogen-gobbling immune cells called macrophages, which engulf and digest bacteria, fungi and other bad actors.
From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023
Directing with some flair, he employs a zigzagging timeline that gooses Matt Greenhalgh’s otherwise downbeat screenplay.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2017
But even as UnReal gooses the depravity of a show like The Bachelor for effect, it can’t squash its stickiness.
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2015
Them Canadians are keen on putting benches up and throwing pathways down so’s you could sit and keep a eye on the water and the ducks and gooses.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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