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quip

[kwip] / kwɪp /


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Some pointed to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s pre-dinner quip that there would be “shots fired” in Trump’s speech.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

As it happened, the quip was quickly laughed off and forgiven.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

Heard someone quip that we live in an era of kids with face tattoos making Adult Contemporary music and well, here we are with Alex Warren .

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2026

Tegmark buttonholed Elon Musk at a 2014 MIT conference on space, after one of his students asked a question that prompted the billionaire’s now-famous quip that, with AI, “we are summoning the demon.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

And he responded as he always did: with a quip.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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