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Lifts of all sorts are, no pun intended, on the rise: forehead and brow lifts up 29 percent; arm lifts and neck lifts both up 21 percent.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026

He is still building back his strength, no pun intended.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

That’s no longer true: A limited number of companies now drive most of its returns as they fuel the buildout of artificial intelligence, and an even smaller handful “chip” in the rest — pun intended.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

The incident has been dubbed 'Clicky Ponting' - a pun on the name of former Australia captain Ricky Ponting.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

“Yes! Every day is like a treasure hunt. It’s too good. God only knows what else we’ll find, no pun intended.”

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Species have been named for ex-spouses, for excrement, for wordplay and puns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The subject provides a bumper crop of puns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

But it’s more than witty puns and costumes that make Snoopy’s Legendary Rooftop Concert special.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

Filled with irreverent puns and ludicrous gadgets, the film boasts a vibrant and tactile style of animation that makes this a silly and frothy treat even adults will appreciate.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025

My ridiculous daydreams about confessing my true feelings to Trey had always been sprinkled with puns or jokes, strategies for laughing it off without missing a beat, if he wasn’t receptive.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Parton punned, adding, “That was such a baaad joke.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023

Perhaps the Anthropocene has already become an anthropomeme: punned and pimped into stuplimity, its presence in popular discourse often just a virtue signal that merely mandates the user to proceed with the work of consumption.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2016

He created sentences that punned with double meanings, and arranged elaborate pranks for his sister and friends — these often involved water balloons.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2014

Perhaps he still smarted at the “Joys and Sarris” subtitle of Kael’s 1963 screed; she had punned on a mispronunciation of his name, which rhymes with Harris, not Doris.

From Time ● Jun. 21, 2012

The traffic of the carts will consolidate it, and in places where carts cannot traverse it should be punned.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various

Ms. Goldstein’s punning premise would be meaningless in the languages of Pascal and Kant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

In 2007, they made a series of posters for the New York Art Book Fair, with punning slogans like “What’s the plan, Uzbekistan? I’m your man, Azerbaijan!” or “Men Are From Murmansk/Women Are From Vilnius.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

That's not to say Passeportout is without humor as Verne clearly couldn't resist punning with that name.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022

On some other show, Ted Lasso is like the impossibly sunny colleague, always punning, who refuses to ever have a bad attitude.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2020

There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides—enormous Mack eagles with two heads perhaps, or wyverns, or lances, or oak trees, or punning signs which referred to the names of the owners.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White