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It’s not like the Dyson toothbrush has great capacity to become a police-state surveillance tool, where you can carry your toothbrush around and record your neighbors for fun.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
On a Saturday afternoon, or even a more spacious weeknight, this would have been a fun learning experience.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
We used to make fun of IBM, saying it would market sushi restaurants as selling “cold, dead, raw fish.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
I understand that preening and politicking is way more fun and ego-enhancing than the minutiae of government in Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
“Huh. Well, what’s most fun for you then? Tell me more.”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
For me, the sweet spot for rock is the ’70s, and when you dig into obscure stuff, it gets even funner and cooler.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
“This is one of the funner units to be around.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 15, 2018
A metaphor about offense to describe the process to acquire pitching is kind of amusing and even funner given the Mariners baserunning woes last season as a team.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2017
“I feel like my parents lived a crazier, funner life than I did,” says Alana.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2017
Walking all this way to give Mr. Leroy a plate of food was worth it ’cause waren’t nothing scarier nor funner than watching him eat fish.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
In the documentary, Dawson said: "It was the funnest summer of my life."
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
“It was the funnest time ever,” she says, and rewarding in ways she never expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2025
“These are some of the funnest games we’ve played all year,” Judge said.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2023
“This is the funnest experience I have had on the baseball field, to represent your country,” Trout said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
It's like some of the funnest times I've had in my community, where you're with them all night long telling stories of the stupid stuff they did growing up.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2022
Nearly 25% of the money generated under the proposed tax would go to permanent affordable housing that would be funned in a manner similar to Proposition HHH.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
It’s clear that he’s having a blast, and his spirit of funning irreverence supercharges the entire narrative like home-brewed black lightning.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2020
Some of Galassi’s funning does skirt simple one-to-one identification: A Nobel Prize-winning Dutch essayist is called van Meegeren, a name mainly associated with a notorious art forger.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2015
How he got here: Wins in the O'Reilly Stakes and the Limbaugh Derby — oh, just funning you.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2015
Last year they got off to a funning start in Where the Boys Are, then made a clattering success of The Honeymoon Machine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Knowing what I knew and not knowing what if anything Grandpa knew, all this funning and politeness gave me the creeps.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
