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There were also celebrations for DIY SOS star Nick Knowles, who jived with Luba Mushtuk to We Built This City by Starship on his 62nd birthday.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2024

Everything is flat and framed in medium shots, missing the dark cityscape aesthetic of the first film, which jived with the ethos of modern mythology.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2023

If someone came to me and was like, you could do this cool thing for Netflix or whatever and it really jived with my life, I would do it, but I don’t know.

From The Verge • Aug. 24, 2021

The Church heaved and jived for almost 30 years.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2020

He juked and jived and spun and danced and darted, and he left them squeezing handfuls of air.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli