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tickle

[tik-uhl] / ˈtɪk əl /


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Known as "Tickle vs Giggle", the years-long dispute is the first time a case of alleged gender identity discrimination has been heard by the Federal Court in Australia.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

“It’s a paradox that you can use all kinds of internet services in most of the country,” said Jonny Tickle, a British national living in Moscow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

Their collector status, celebrity validation, high resale value, and traffic-driving blind-box releases craft an echo of past trends like Beanie Babies or Tickle Me Elmos.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

If you’re old enough, you’ll remember the Cabbage Patch doll frenzy in the mid-’80s, the Tickle Me Elmo craze in the mid-’90s and the Pokemon trading cards and video games a few years later.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2025

Then another, this one with some of our machinists, and then another with Mr. Dubonnet, Tom Tickle, and some of the other miners.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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