one-liner
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Asante is bringing back his best one-liner, “We will shock the world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
The Thanksgiving episodes are shocking and absurd, packed with scathing one-liner digs and soapy melodrama; feasts so good that you can’t help but come back for more.
From Salon ● May 17, 2025
“Where was Pat?” became a one-liner in Ronald Reagan’s winning campaign against him the next year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
She added: "He was always the first to help people in need. Brimming with empathy and living for the present, he would always have a funny one-liner up his sleeve making everyone around him laugh."
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
One of the reasons laughter is so effective as a tool for persuasion—and any stand-up comic who has ever seen off a heckler with a zinging one-liner knows this—is that laughter is involuntary assent.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
But although the one-liners were flying, the show got very serious at the end, when the game's new twist dictated that Grant and Jama had to select their third traitor.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Wolverine has amazing one-liners throughout that original series.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Blunt stole the show with laugh-out-loud one-liners, often delivered dripping with contempt to Hathaway’s bumbling newbie second assistant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
The “Chuck Norris facts” phenomenon — a stream of absurd one-liners casting him as an invincible force of nature — helped turn the actor into a meme sensation before memes were a business.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 2026
I just keep stunning her with the great one-liners.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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