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“It’s A No For Me,” he tersely posted on social media, accompanied by a smiley face emoji wearing shades.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Images on social media showed a person scaling the fence in a costume that included a smiley face head with sunglasses, prompting the monkeys to scatter.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

The black-and-white smiley motif of the Vertigo, an events space, sat right next to her face, just happy to be there, it seemed, above a painted sign that says “Ready to Party?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

The smiley, huggy Vrabel is the sports dad we all wanted, and North Carolinian Maye actually has some of that early-Brady stardust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

I added blue streams that run through the ravines, and then placed my wooden figurines: a sandal, a disc with a smiley face painted on.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

The original Twitter thread, laden with exclamation points and smileys, aimed to provoke amazement and incredulity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021

Unicode, which oversees what is allowed to become an emoji, currently lists 1644 emojis, including smileys, people, sport, food, animals, flags and a myriad of other categories.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2018

Second place receives a big puffy foamy top hat in psychedelic colors and printed with all sorts of groovy peace signs and flowers and smileys.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2018

The results of a study about using smileys in email may be disappointing to emoji lovers.

From Time ● Aug. 17, 2017

We call them smileys because when you’re done eating all the meat off it, the goat looks like it’s smiling at you from the plate.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah