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You would also be relying on the restaurant management not to spill the beans — apologies once again for the pun — to regular customers and employees.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

“No pun intended, we just stay in our ‘lane,’ here at Clemson.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

Most of the other young Fellows were dyed-in-the-tweed intellectuals who liked to pun in Greek.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

But the campaign raises a question that isn’t easily settled by viral videos or produce puns: Are men genuinely worse at grocery shopping, or have they become the convenient faces of a much broader problem?

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Irony and sarcasm effortlessly poured out, along with puns, bons mots and maxims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"I'm a physics teacher and I've got a terrible sense of humour," he confesses, so he particularly likes it if the students pick up on his fondness for corny puns.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Clement “was fascinated by powerful businessmen,” Bartholomew added, and he “appears to have further believed that their very names are puns that reveal God’s purposes.”

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

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

So the old knight, not relishing being punned upon for his counsel, dismounts.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 by Various

The penchant for punning titles hasn’t diminished, however.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Wait a minute, was the New York Times punning with its Wordle on Veteran’s Day?

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2022

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

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