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Example sentences for: hiccup

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The Telegraph also voiced the United Nations' reaction to the scenario, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling it a "hiccup."
The hiccup could lead to "another stand-off with the United States of the sort that almost led to war in February, and before that last November," the paper speculated.
Will this hiccup lead Starr to offer Congress a preliminary report?
The U.S. economy, perhaps as a result, didn't even hiccup, while the stock market, which had plummeted in the wake of Asian turmoil, Russian devaluation, and the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, came roaring back.
This may be one reason, besides orthographic brevity, that American English has changed doughnuts to donuts and hiccough to hiccup .