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Goss


Definition:

  • (n.) Gorse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients were divided into high and low depression groups using the Zung self-rating depression scale and compared using measures obtained from the Goss-Gerke Inventory on Dental and Psychological Factors.
  • (2) Jamie Jackson Manchester United’s Ashley Young out for ‘long time’ with serious groin injury Read more Kick-off Saturday 3pm Venue Old Trafford Last season Manchester United 0 Southampton 1 Referee Mike Jones This season G 15, Y 49, R 1, 3.40 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 7-2 D 5-2 Manchester United Subs from Romero, Pereira, Powell, Rashford, Tuanzebem, Goss, McNair, Varela, Depay, Januzaj, Mata Doubtful None Injured Shaw (broken leg, May), Valencia (ankle, Mar), Rojo (shoulder, unknown), Carrick (unknown), Young (groin, unknown), Schweinsteiger (knee), Jones (match fitness) Suspended None Form LLDWDW Discipline Y37 R0 Leading scorer Rooney 6 Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Read more Southampton Subs from Stekelenburg, K Davis, Martina, Yoshida, Clasie, Romeu, Tadic, Austin, Pelle, Juanmi Doubtful Stekelenburg (knock) Injured Rodriguez (knee, Mar), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form LWLLWW Discipline Y38 R3 Leading scorer Pellè 6
  • (3) The singer Elaine Paige, the former Bros star Matt Goss and the DJ Sara Cox will be among the contestants on a festive edition of Strictly Come Dancing.
  • (4) After the verdict, Ken Goss,a Crown Prosecution Service spokesman, said the defence was baseless.
  • (5) That way the animals, who have names such as Madde, after Goss’s wife, Fred, Hugo and Polaris, can be followed to see if they’ve strayed into areas at risk of poaching or human conflict.
  • (6) This sequence, starting at position 4, is completely homologous to the previously published sequence of the tryptic dodecapeptide harboring the catalytically essential (phospho)histidyl residue in the active-site domain of the dikinase from the nonphotosynthetic bacterium, Bacteroides symbiosus (Goss, N.H., Evans, C.T., and Wood, H.G.
  • (7) CIA talking points prepared for the agency’s then director, Porter Goss, ahead of a 2005 meeting with national security adviser Stephen Hadley said the CIA “urgently” needed George Bush to come up with “a long-term disposition policy for the 12 high-value detainees (HVDs) we hold in overseas detention sites.” In April James Connell, one of al-Baluchi’s attorneys, filed a motion to compel release of the Senate’s full, unredacted, 6,000-page report.
  • (8) Its three directors when torture took place – George Tenet, Porter Goss and Mike Hayden – blasted it as “marred by errors of fact and interpretation”, in the Wall Street Journal .
  • (9) Employing a modified Goss-Harris irradiation fusion protocol, we have generated a panel of somatic cell hybrids containing various overlapping fragments of the Xcen-Xp11.4 interval.
  • (10) The hawks came from Sweden, Germany and Finland: most were huge, pale, taiga forest gosses.
  • (11) "There has been quite a lot of boasting that unemployment is at less than half the national numbers in Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota – a lot of that is traced to farming," Goss said.
  • (12) Louis-André Gosse (1791-1873), a liberal-minded Geneva physician, went to Greece in 1827 in order to work, for a couple of years, for the Greek State, which had won its independence just a few years ago.
  • (13) Therefore I don't agree with Roger Goss of Patient Concern that GPs should "mind their own business".
  • (14) Other former George W Bush cabinet members or advisers who are working on the Jeb Bush presidential project, according to the Washington Post list, include former homeland security secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, former CIA directors Porter Goss and Michael Hayden, and former attorney general Michael Mukasey.
  • (15) Even 1989’s edition featured what we are duty-bound to call the “powerhouse stylings” of Bros’s Luke Goss.
  • (16) Statistical analysis similar to that of Goss and Harris (1975, 1977a, b) has been performed on the segregation data in the hybrid clones.
  • (17) In this paper we demonstrate a modification of the method first developed by Goss and Harris for generation of irradiation hybrids.
  • (18) Roger Goss of Patient Concern told the Daily Mail: “This is ludicrous.
  • (19) 'Drones are a future of conservation' “It’s pretty grim,” Goss, a 28-year-old Kenyan who manages the Mara Elephant Project, said as he stood 50 metres (55 yards) from the carcass.
  • (20) "You are talking about a real bite out of family budgets," said Ernie Goss, an agricultural economist at Omaha's Creighton University, who was speaking before the release of the government projections.

Gossip


Definition:

  • (n.) A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
  • (n.) A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.
  • (n.) One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.
  • (n.) The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.
  • (v. t.) To stand sponsor to.
  • (v. i.) To make merry.
  • (v. i.) To prate; to chat; to talk much.
  • (v. i.) To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
  • (3) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
  • (4) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
  • (5) That's the kind of insider gossip you get when you're a media player like me.
  • (6) Similarly literary and pensive was Clouds of Sils Maria , in which France's Olivier Assayas combined some modish themes — the internet, celebrity gossip, superhero movies — with some hoarier themes regarding the theatre-cinema divide, ageing and female rivalry.
  • (7) Lord Justice Leveson's court was packed with lawyers, journalists and computer screens, which made it look like a City trading floor, and which – in a way – is the Leveson story: what price privacy, what price the risk of publishing gossip without checking it, what price tip-off fees about the rich and famous that might be worth £5,000 to a police or NHS worker – or the £500,000 (so top injunction solicitor, Graham Shears, told the hearing) for bedding a David Beckham?
  • (8) He likes the policy bit of politics rather more than the showbusiness, and there is no fodder for gossip in his personal life.
  • (9) A few weeks ago, myriad gossip sites published photos of the Malibu home he just bought, going through the place room by room.
  • (10) A leading member of Voronin's party, Mark Tkachuk, told reporters the claims were "fairy tales" and "low-life gossip".
  • (11) It wasn't just women who gossiped in the queues for water: it was a community event.
  • (12) As a result of the disastrous supreme court Citizens United decision,” Sanders said, “billionaires are literally able to buy elections and candidates.” He also appealed for a campaigns without “gossip”, saying: “I’ve never run a negative ad in my life … I believe that in a democracy what elections are about are serious debates over serious issues.” “This is not the Red Sox versus the Yankees.” Progressive activists welcomed his entry into the race but continued to urge Warren, who is seen as a more polished performer, to compete against Clinton as well.
  • (13) Smith responded by saying he would not “indulge in gossip”.
  • (14) How can free expression and the yearning for a private life be protected in this murky arena of a gossip free-for-all?
  • (15) Before what is bound to be a gossip-fuelled party conference season in which Lib Dem flirtation with Labour (and vice versa) will be added to the mix of plotting, irresistible visions of the future home into view.
  • (16) But with no arrests and no obvious external suspects, the girls' family have found themselves the subject of local gossip, newspaper speculation and background briefings intended to place them firmly in the frame.
  • (17) Matters of the utmost importance – such as inequality, poverty, exploitation, corporate crime and the destruction of the natural world – are neglected or marginalised, while trivial political gossip is elevated to the status of major news.
  • (18) According to reports , the Goody wedding issue of Richard Desmond's celebrity gossip magazine sold 1.8 million copies, more than three times its average circulation of 508,504 in the second half of 2008.
  • (19) Its target is not just celebrity intrusion but bias, unfairness and gossip in the style of Private Eye and the "off Fleet Street" plethora of news-and-comment websites.
  • (20) He gossips about former colleagues and even offers theories about how to solve the developing international crisis in the Crimea – ban Russia from the Olympics, maybe.

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