joke
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The woman was disturbed, but Moraff reportedly played it off as a joke.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
It’s been a wild ride for the pair, but despite their snowballing fame, they swear they’re like any other dad and daughter who bicker, joke around and simply enjoy each other’s company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Zeinab says they used to joke about who would be the first to buy their mum a house.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The funniest part of that conversation is when Sam labels Judith a WOACA, a Woman of a Certain Age, pronouncing it as if he were Fozzie Bear punctuating a joke in an old-timey stand-up set.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Sorry. I shouldn’t joke about this. Do you have security cameras? Maybe that will give you an idea....”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
“Part of me jokes that paying for a death certificate would be like buying a lottery ticket.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Part of me jokes that it’s like buying a lottery ticket — you never know, maybe I’d “win.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
It doesn’t help that the vice presidents constantly runs down his wife in speeches, comments he tries to play off as jokes, but which are too hard-edged to sell as jovial.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
Critics argued that memes, profanity and irreverent jokes trivialised a campaign fighting to strengthen India's education system.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Oh yeah! I need to do that,” he jokes, before dramatically slapping himself on the head and falling onto the grass.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
"I imagine he thought this would be the first part of the Earth's alien defence system," Kerr, who is a professor at the University of Oxford, joked.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
On a recent day, Maurice LaFountain, Deep Fission’s senior engineering director, showed off pink-flecked granite retrieved from the company’s first test hole and joked that the billion-year-old rock would make a nice countertop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"I think my grandmother would have given me a proper telling-off if she'd been told she had to reserve online at the heuriger!" he joked.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
An assistant coach joked that they might’ve finally found a weakness in Wallace’s game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
"I think you hit him with too much ooh. Like...smells more like eww," Candace joked, curling her top lip up under her nostrils.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
The book, expanded from what he wrote for them, includes his training, pending divorce, joking asides and playing for high stakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The next morning, everyone is joking and chatting as they submit their final choices to Yoo by text.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
He worked the room - and it was a very big room - with great patience, hugging and chatting, joking, posing for pictures, trying out a few of the sports events.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The Australian prime minister has previously referred to Modi as "The Boss", joking that he could pull bigger crowds than US rock icon Bruce Springsteen.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
I was only half joking, and she knew it.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
