humor
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The speech mixed humor and ritual with more conventional leadership framing, repeatedly returning to themes of endurance, responsibility and preparation for uncertainty in modern conflict.
From Salon • May 24, 2026
Awad had an unrelenting but self-deprecating sense of humor, and he loved his wife’s knafeh, the sweet, stretchy cheese Palestinian dessert.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
She developed, writes Ms. Lutz, a “weird, witchy” sense of humor, doodled violent images in the margins of her books and made a specialty, in her poetry and prose, of the “nocturnal and crepuscular.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Colbert has said he initially struggled with CBS’s mandate for broad topical humor.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
“But,” he returned with equal good humor, “a brother of the Chosen People!”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Vocabulary lists containing humor
Journalism
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 4
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