laugh
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“She would always crack jokes that made everyone laugh. She’d see someone sad, and she would do everything she could to make them laugh, make them happy, make them feel better.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"You could hear him before you saw him because of his distinctive laugh," adds Bulless.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
“These new rules aren’t about giving retail investors more access to private funds,” he said with a dry laugh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Now, when one of us calls, we just say ‘cold call, cold call,’ which immediately makes us both laugh and kicks off our conversation,” Black said.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
Another wave of self-consciousness ran through me, but I also wanted to laugh.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The effect is something like uncanny sketch comedy, dredging laughs from Hansen’s stilted expressions and intense demeanor, regardless of a scene’s emotional gravity.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
"As I recall, Larry Mullen took a hose to the fans," laughs Bono.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Pledging love and respecting someone or a relationship can make people feel so uncomfortable that leaning into these tropes of life can feel humorous, and that’s where the laughs from a Hallmark film come from.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
While the trope of young adults living with their parents has been played for laughs for years — the movie “Failure to Launch” came out in 2006 — the consequences are real.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
“No tests?” said Rich, trying his joke again and snickering quietly, but getting no laughs at all this time.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
Haaland laughed off the suggestion that a haircut might cost him his powers, like Samson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He laughed at the power of liability law to forestall bad events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“I laughed about it because I was like, ‘Well, at least you were there as a parent, sneaking in your kid,’ which is honestly pretty cool,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Cruise took the hand of Catherine, Princess of Wales, as they talked and laughed on a black carpet - instead of the traditional red - before the royal gala screening of Digger in Leicester Square.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Karli and I had laughed and laughed, but Mutti still looked stony-faced.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
If you ever saw them together you might now be laughing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
"The nuclear annihilation of an American city is no laughing matter," Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader in the US House of Representatives, said on X.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Instead, the audience is laughing at the details of the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The pair can be seen laughing during the encounter.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
When I’m down, she sings hip-hop songs to me in her opera voice, and I die laughing.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
