At the beginning of her career, Hayek had to develop these inventive looks independently, as many luxury brands wouldn’t ________ to dress her.— Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2021

The Tour Divide, a bike race from the Canadian Rockies to the U.S. border with Mexico, has always been a test of _________.— New York Times, 5 July 2022

I then descended to the Courts of justice, over which the judges, those _________ sages and interpreters of the law, presided, for determining the disputed rights and properties of men, as well as for the punishment of vice, and protection of innocence.— Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, 1726

Donkeys meander through narrow streets past doorways and through low arches, suddenly braying around corners at startled tourists while residents continue on their way, _________.— Lisa Morrow, CNN, 10 May 2022

Novak stars as Ben Manalowitz, a __________ New York writer who travels to rural West Texas to make a true-crime podcast investigating the overdose death of a former romantic hookup.— Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022

The _________ villagers touched their caps but sneered behind her back.— "George Sand," 1980, in V. S. Pritchett: A Man of Letters,  1985

Where his father liked to have __________, he likes to be with intellectuals. He likes confrontation.— Franklin Foer, New Republic, 14 Jan. 2002

The tournament itself, in the Tennis Center’s grand space full of monuments to Sampras and the Williams sisters, hovered somewhere between gate-crashing and __________.— Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022

Students and Rollins staff members came in droves to the campus greenroom starting Monday to _________, giggle and hold their noses up at the putrid-smelling flower.— Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022