clown
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This time around, stand-up star Joe Lycett, 38, is one of the leading candidates for the role of class clown.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The travel party treated the shop like a clown car.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
A child could eat the fries and then go home and watch the clown who sold them solve a mystery.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Curry’s terrifying portrait of the demonic clown in the 1990 TV adaptation of Stephen King novel ‘It’ set a high bar that for some fans of the horror franchise has been difficult to clear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The rest of the kids laughed like they were watching a circus clown.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
In other words, sinister clowns and predatory sea hags are just silly legends until they’re actually trying to kill you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Live a calmer lifestyle, gel in obscurity, develop an edge, show up in January and make everyone east of the Mississippi look like clowns again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
"We are F1 drivers. We should not look like kids and clowns trying to ram into each other. That's not what F1 needs."
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Say you don’t pay much attention to the nitty-gritty of politics and think they’re all a bunch of clowns.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
I waited by the red clowns, just like you said, but you never came, you never came for me.
From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
It’s rare to see someone so straightforwardly admit they were clowned.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2026
“Strangers clowned us,” former Ambassadors player Victoria Henson told me the other day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
His song Thick Of It, which features Trippie Redd, was nominated for song of the year - despite being something he was "clowned for".
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025
Morale seemed high among Granite’s troops this week, as a short-range team clowned around despite being on duty long into the early morning hours as Kyiv’s air defenses took down 35 explosive Iranian-made Shahed drones.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023
She laughed when I clowned for her, and smiled and accepted gracefully the food gifts my sister gave her.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
We spoke with several students who credit clowning with improving their lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Her colleagues and friends say clowning perfectly aligns with Smith’s natural curiosity and playfulness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The wily, frizzy-haired Frenchman with red-framed spectacles taught Zucker everything he knows about clowning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
An audience expecting acrobatic basketball stunts and on-court clowning set to “Sweet Georgia Brown,” the Globetrotters’ signature song, was instead treated to a real, close-fought exhibition.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Despite clowning him about it, they loved him.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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