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clown

[klaun] / klaʊn /




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If you haven’t seen this clown, there’s no better time than the present.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 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

As the young members of the Losers Club look on in horror, the clown addresses them directly with a lethal glare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

For months, the running joke at Philippe Gaulier’s famed clown school outside of Paris was that Jack Grossman was going to die alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

So I pedal backward and practice riding no-hands, and I make big figure eights like a circus clown to keep slow pace with him as we go.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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

I was genuinely searching for real answers in “The Man Will Burn” to lingering questions like, what’s up with these clowns and why do so many people despise them?

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 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

At that moment you remembered Vinny’s old wallpaper, the one she used to have when she was little, with carousels and clowns.

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead

“Strangers clowned us,” former Ambassadors player Victoria Henson told me the other day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

“I saw him trip the other day and I clowned him for like two days.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025

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

The Apollo 7 astronauts also won a special Emmy award for their daily television reports from orbit, during which they clowned around, held up humorous signs and educated earthlings about space flight.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023

The same old boys showed off trading cards and clowned around nearby.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Now even Dolly-esque clowning can’t save country music’s current stars from having to take unambiguous positions.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

Her colleagues and friends say clowning perfectly aligns with Smith’s natural curiosity and playfulness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Rolincik is now a communications specialist, but clowning is still a big part of her life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

Sometimes we’d pick randomly from the litter of shiny squares scattered across my comforter, and we’d laugh at Fang clowning for the camera, all pumped up after one big climb or another.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx


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