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joke

[johk] / dʒoʊk /




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“I joke around with him, like, ‘Well, you didn’t take care of me in the marriage, but you’re taking care of me in the divorce,’” she quipped.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Friends joke that he’s such an expert at navigating the platform that YouTube’s management would benefit from a tutorial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Comedy: The ‘In Living Color’ actor and writer, whose stand-up routine includesrole-playing, says he won’t humor just any old joke teller.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

But she had never tasted the traditional variety until she learned about the Dutch porridge-making contest and decided to enter as a "bit of a joke".

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

It was a joke among his friends that wherever he went, animals sought out Christopher.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Bill decides to disappear into irony and jokes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Teams are put in place to ensure the comedian can focus on generating jokes while they scheme new ways to metastasize its distribution and justify their own salaries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

“If there’s anything tumultuous happening now . . . I wouldn’t know, I haven’t been paying attention,” she jokes, “just remember that historically, an enlightenment of epic proportions is probably not far off.”

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

There were few jokes - and in stark contrast to his predecessor Sir Keir Starmer's speech last year, he did not mention Nigel Farage or Kemi Badenoch once.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Buddy Stein: I pictured him telling scandalous jokes, cracking his knuckles when he got to the punch line.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Erling’s team joked that it might’ve been my fault because I asked twice about it during the interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

"It's a nice little story being able to say we played rugby against Taylor Swift's brother-in-law, which I'm sure he loves as a title," Hackney full-back Peter Scott joked to BBC Sport.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

"This is me with men all the time," joked comedian Joanne McNally, who hadn't voted for Grant.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Upon accepting her Oscar for supporting actress for the film, the nine-months pregnant Saint kissed the statuette and joked, “I may have the baby right here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Mikwam came out along the path to meet his friends, and the men talked and joked before they made themselves comfortable, sitting on blankets on the ground.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

“I’m joking with my mom she’s happy to let me play now,” Elia said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

He renamed the company Martin Defense Group after himself, joking that it would simplify his future takeover of Lockheed Martin.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

“I was joking around, but people here take it absolutely serious.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Afterwards, Sabalenka played down the significance of losing her ranking, joking she did not care about it.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

At first, I thought people were joking when they said he’d married a Winnebago.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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