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When Oscars host Chevy Chase opened the 1988 ceremony with the rather soft quip, “Good evening, Hollywood phonies,” the disdain from the audience was palpable, and he was never asked to host the show again.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

My 15-year-old son’s borrowed quip stirred up memories of my father.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

However, when Minton Beddoes noted his almost 250 million followers on X at one point during the interview, Musk was quick to quip: "Popular guy".

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Hilton responded with a quip that quickly deflated the attack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

It must have been around that time that I discovered an essay by Ralph Wiley in which he responded to Bellow’s quip.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nevertheless, one of the Time journalists gamely quips in response: “I would have if I had the opportunity.”

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

As the AI analyst and podcaster Tom Reed quips: “Even a 100% success rate at predicting the tokens of a Robert Caro biography doesn’t generalize to becoming POTUS.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

And then they spent more than 90 minutes, including a dress rehearsal, exchanging quips and creating characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The British adventurer makes her acrobatic moves against a background of realistic graphics, complete with her trademark sarcastic quips.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

“Yeah, you always are, Mr. Berrycloth. But a good gent would say ‘ladies first,’ wouldn’t he?” quips Colin.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

“I joke around with him, like, ‘Well, you didn’t take care of me in the marriage, but you’re taking care of me in the divorce,’” she quipped.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

As the lights flickered back on, baptism in blackout over, one attendee quipped that the show was now, officially, "very authentic".

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

“Usually when people get 25 years older, the show goes slower,” Michaels quipped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

O’Neill, who served as House speaker from 1977 to 1987, famously quipped that all politics is local.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Slant and Will listened; and even Bono, when he was by, hearkened some and quipped.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

The King concluded his speech by thanking Trump for a "wonderful dinner," quipping that it was "a considerable improvement on the Boston Tea Party".

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

He said it was "very early for that question" and offered no further comment, prompting Letts, 60, to raise a laugh by quipping: "I'm the next James Bond."

From Barron's ● Feb. 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

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