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wit

noun as in humor

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noun as in person who is very funny

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These people might look like they’re conversing, having lively battles of collegiate wit, stereotypical of an Ivy League institution.

Patricia’s husband intervenes valiantly to help her, lending color and wit to her predicament, but we suspect he can’t save her.

Yet his homespun wit and his emotional specificity also bear the influence of the master he describes as his “songwriting GOAT”: John Prine.

True to the spirit of Anderson’s Loewe, there’s an underlying wit to the collection.

The film “had a lot of humor to it, it had a lot of wit, it had Meryl Streep,” Wintour said recently on the New Yorker Radio Hour.

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