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Jin


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Jinn

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then again, another referee might also have produced a red card for Choi Jin-cheul’s two-footed challenge on Gianluca Zambrotta , or Kim Tae-young’s elbow on Del Piero.
  • (2) Jin said China would probably support economic measures but would shun security-related action such as signing up to the Proliferation Security Initiative.
  • (3) South Korea sent two ships carrying 2,000 boxes of relief supplies to Yeonpyeong today, a coastguard official, Kim Dong-jin, said.
  • (4) Jin Jiaman , executive director, Global Environmental Institute Society This is the key 10 years.
  • (5) In the three-minute video, ‘From Candles to Computers: Bringing Electricity to China’s Jing Jin village’, she says: “The coal industry is a major force in eliminating fuel poverty in China but, more importantly, it’s a critical driving force for the phenomenal economic growth China has experienced.” The video comes with a soothing soundtrack of traditional Chinese music, and is beautifully shot.
  • (6) Even more so if "rookie" Hyun-jin Ryu doesn't get his act together tonight - the first Korean pitcher to start in the playoffs looked nothing like the impressive hurler he was in the regular season, getting hit hard by the Braves in the NLDS.
  • (7) Updated at 3.32pm BST 1.11am BST First pitch Let's see if Hyun-jin Ryu can settle in on a 79 degree day that's just perfect for baseball.
  • (8) The Dodgers front three include reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw (now locked up until 2020 to the tune of $215m ), Zack Greinke, and Hyun-Jin Ryu, and just about anyone would sign up for that.
  • (9) Wu Riqiang argues China’s Jin submarines (known in the Chinese military as Type 094) are still not ready, as they are too noisy and could easily be located by US attack subs.
  • (10) Jin pointed to the speed with which the security council had convened a meeting.
  • (11) Well, thanks to Clayton Kershaw and his ridiculously low 1.83 ERA, along with his sidekick Zack Grienke, not to mention Hyun-jin Ryu, Ricky Nolasco and closer-with-cutter Kenley Jansen, no, not really - even if the offense is making headlines now, LA are still very much about the pitching, which is likely enough to get them to the NLCS.
  • (12) Even defectors describe him as a skilful politician with the foresight to understand that nuclear diplomacy is a marathon, not a sprint.But the rapid rise of his youngest son, about whom the world knew practically nothing until his first official appearance with his father in 2010, has produced a vainglorious leader who, says Kim Kwang-jin, is "running too fast and doesn't know how to slow down".
  • (13) This article deals with a HE outbreak, which occurred in Sulagong Village, Pan-jin Township, Yining County, Xinjiang.
  • (14) Drivers had also face pressure from the acting manpower minister, Tan Chuan Jin, who warned them they had "crossed the line".
  • (15) Megumi's parents had no inkling of the nature of her disappearance until 1997, when Ahn Myong-jin, a former North Korean spy who defected to the South, talked at length about an abducted Japanese girl matching her description.
  • (16) From 1986, the authors mainly used Modified Xiao-Jin Pills (MXJP) added with chemical treatment to cure patients in mid and late phase of gastric cancer after operation.
  • (17) Jin moved to the United States three years ago, but this is the first Christmas she has not been able to speak to her husband.
  • (18) The visits by the national public safety commission chairman, Jin Matsubara, and the transport minister, Yuichiro Hata, were the first by cabinet ministers since the Democrats swept to power in 2009, promising to forge warmer ties with the rest of Asia.
  • (19) Unification ministry spokesman Lim Byeong Cheol told reporters that the North Korean officials would hold their main talks over lunch with South Korean unification minister Ryoo Kihl-jae and national security director Kim Kwan-jin before flying home later on Saturday.
  • (20) The parliament speaker Wang Jin-pyng promised on Sunday that the party would not review the trade pact until it had developed a mechanism for public oversight.

Jinx


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It took us 35 hours to get to London because of delays, so I think we’re jinxed,” said Jillian Masselos, who is pregnant.
  • (2) "Very serious allegations have been made and this is no run-of-the-mill, high jinx affair," he said this afternoon.
  • (3) 4.21am BST Red Sox 8 - Cardinals 1, top of 9th May Low (@TeamMassMayhem) @NotCoachTito @LengelDavid YOU JINXED IT!
  • (4) "Do I switch the lights on and risk jinxing the Reds?
  • (5) I'm not saying this was a jinx or anything, I'm just saying.
  • (6) Imagine the high-jinx when a man who likes meatballs has to eat, um, cod.
  • (7) Over the course of a jinxed shoot and a mixed critical reception he discovered that being King of the World was not all it was cracked up to be.
  • (8) Ah now, it'd be unfair for me to try to jinx one team over the other.
  • (9) I’m sitting in a windowless room with two gigantic pictures of [The Jinx’s villain] Robert Durst on the wall,” he explains on the phone from New York.
  • (10) Although given that my only other bet was on England beating Algeria 5-1, I think I've probably jinxed them."
  • (11) She chose her university, in part, because of its strong reputation for sport and Rosenfeld names the tennis star Martina Navratilova as an inspiration, although an injury jinxed her own hopes of competing at a top level.
  • (12) But the crowd are prepared to wait... 10.09pm BST I don't normally publish emails like this, but we've had a lot of them in the past week I'm banned by my highly superstitious family from watching live coverage of the Olympics because I jinx Team GB," says Claire Robins.
  • (13) "After such a victorious and uplifting welcome of Lima love, the contaminated jinx had its way via a simple restaurant meal of penne pasta and tomato," he wrote.
  • (14) But the resurgence would never be complete, the jinx not entirely broken, until they had defeated their rivals.
  • (15) When the San Francisco 49ers seemed to respond to the power outage by starting to play like they could actually steal the game away from the Baltimore Ravens, we wanted to give a certain amount of credit to the lights, call it momentum or a jinx or whatever.
  • (16) Fielding says the new book is about "a whole new idea for a phase of her life that I can't jinx by describing it".
  • (17) 1.53am GMT Kansas City here we come Of course in the other game last night, Sporting KC finally overcame their Houston Dynamo jinx to not just get to the MLS Cup final but to ensure that they'll be hosting it (having been to a great All Star Week there, I can tell you they'll do a great job too).
  • (18) They've been rather spoiled this week after lifting that home elimination game jinx.
  • (19) Lucy Beaumont: 'I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse' Lucy Beaumont I'm jinxed with accommodation in Edinburgh.
  • (20) Updated at 7.28pm GMT 7.23pm GMT 90 min +5: “Okay, with three minutes to go I think I’m just about ready to put my Niall Mullen voodoo doll away after his fate enticing attempt to jinx things at half time,” writes Phil Sawyer.

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