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“I would call it mock heroic or satiric. Miller’s is more of a sledgehammer. I wanted to write an ending for this moment that would connect with audiences.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Cheer him, mock him or despise him; he’ll be here all week, so try the veal.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

Many job seekers are employing artificial intelligence to rehearse asking for a higher salary by using large language models like Claude or ChatGPT to practice a mock negotiation.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

This week, traders from Goldman Sachs and Citadel Securities, traded mock symbols in practice runs on the Texas Stock Exchange.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

The young bounced around the adults, ambushing one another, rolling in mock battle, and shrieking for protection when an older animal lost patience and bared its teeth.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

In a chapter titled “The War of the Gods and Demons,” Chesterton mocks the idea that soldiers in a war fight for “abstract” economic or geopolitical advantages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

But they may also recognise something more enduring: the persistence of the very systems the film gently mocks.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

In fact, Anthropic, which is behind the Claude AI chatbot, indirectly mocks OpenAI’s ChatGPT in its ad.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026

She identifies herself as a U.S. citizen and lightly mocks Ross for filming their license plates.

From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2026

“Duh,” he mocks, and kisses the top of my head.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

The proceedings had barely begun when Bessent mocked Canada’s military, dismissing it with a reference to a decommissioned amusement-park ride.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Many people mocked his first selfie-video reel, external - in which he broke his silence about the youth protests while they were still ongoing.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The single star was painted in berry juice, as was the bear, which looked so porcine that Mexicans who were struggling to protect California from Yankee rogues mocked it as more pig than bear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

More devastating, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, mocked Trump’s plan to charge tolls.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026

My conscience mocked me, picking fights like a petulant child.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

The U.S. defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, posted a photo on social media of two young women at a Canadian cadet training center that was interpreted as mocking their weight and gender.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Phillips ultimately lost his job with Collins too, this time after crudely mocking a rival political operative whose wife had accused former NBC journalist Matt Lauer of rape.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

It’s funny, my mother used to look at me with an expression that was neither mocking nor exasperated, merely seasoned, and say, “Baby, not everything needs to be a production.”

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

Social media has been flooded with posts from users in Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador and Peru questioning refereeing decisions or expressing disapproval of Argentina, while messages mocking rival teams also proliferated from Argentine accounts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

He could feel the red eye mocking him.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver