humor
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That mordant humor, however enjoyable, tiptoes around the unanswerable question of how, or even whether, we can tell the difference between cosplay and the real thing.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026
It reminds me of the joke that you know an economist has a sense of humor if he uses decimal points.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
He apologized in a reply, saying it was "humor."
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
The humor writer, whose new essay collection comes out this month, does not want to hear about your feelings: “Please don’t finish that sentence on me.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
She had a helpless kind of fear about water, about rain, and she’d say God was testing her sense of humor, setting her up in a place called Deep Water.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
Vocabulary lists containing humor
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