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Later, when Bond is whisked to Vietnam, the orchestra swells with suave panache, immersing you in the action before 007 has even uttered a quip.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

He quickly returned his gaze to Stern for another quip.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Others pointed to Karoline Leavitt’s quip before the dinner that during Trump’s speech there would be “shots fired.”

From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2026

Thatcher’s quip raises an important question about the role of games in our lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Perhaps once he could evoke gales of laughter with a quip, but the sea had taken that power from him, along with half his wits and all his memory.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

"When you are in the job nothing is strange," quips one top-flight recruitment chief.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

His book reads as a conversational account peppered with occasional quips about contemporary political events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Pattinson’s voice is nearly unrecognizable as he delivers some of Hansen’s signature quips, including “What would have happened if I wasn’t here?” and “You see how this looks, right?”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

That institution comes in for specific criticism from Savouri who quips that the IMF acronym would be more accurate were it to represent the Invariably Mistaken Forecaster providing Grossly Distorted Projections.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

“Don’t let me talk you into playing chess,” she quips, repeating Asher’s warning he’d given me when I’d first met her.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

"Bin day cometh," quipped Binface, the self-styled "intergalactic space warrior" from the fictional planet Sigma IX.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

After Burton's fairy tale cup run finally ended, Clough said that Pep Guardiola invited him in for a glass of wine and quipped he hoped the Spaniard had "more than a glass."

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Around the Caltech campus, Marcus remained so unaffected and so focused on his research that one colleague quipped that he “must have spent his million dollars on a new sweater.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

“It was a dictatorship at the door,” Andy Warhol once quipped, “and a democracy on the floor.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Well, that’s all right, then,” quipped Holly, threading her way through the mass of wires.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Albanese took to the stage at that event to declare "Modi is the Boss", quipping that his crowd-pulling power eclipsed even that of US rock icon Bruce Springsteen.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Minus the flash, the neon, the tailoring and the quipping, “LifeHack” is a kind of “Ocean’s Eleven” for Gen Z: a breathless, ingenious caper that moves at about 200 megabits per second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

This achievement is all the more remarkable considering that, in the next theater over, Fanning was punching, kicking and quipping in “Predator: Badlands.”

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

“For them, I’m just this TikTok crowd work guy,” Jay says, before quipping, “I’m not bitter, it is what it is.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

Or, as my husband Steve is fond of quipping, a "balanced meal" has four colors on every plate: something red, something green, something white and something yellow.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon