mock
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After treks to downtown L.A.’s Fashion District to find just the right materials, she’ll mock up clever riffs on julienned ginger and cilantro leaves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
When they held a mock negotiation at the end of the summer, three of the four finalists were from the group that did the simulations, says Megan Ma, the lab’s executive director.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth separately appeared to mock the physical appearance of a Canadian soldier on social media.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Fans were asked not to leave socks on the mock grave, made of pebbles with messages written on them, because the beach was environmentally sensitive.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Jack leans toward me and adds in a mock whisper: “Also, what’s the difference between a cubby and a mailbox?”
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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This mocks the intent of the push to end Unifil, given force by the U.N.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
His bright Hawaiian shirt mocks the somberness of the day.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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In May, I challenged him to have tacos with my dad and me after the internet mocked him for declaring that the hard-shell tacos at a Del Taco in Barstow were “street.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The political editor of KSDK-TV in St. Louis, Schmitt’s home market, mocked him openly for the mistake.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
He then mocked one of the main topics of this year’s General Assembly—an effort to put restraints on artificial intelligence, which Trump said should be called superintelligence, because the word artificial makes it sound “fake.”
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
South Park, which has run since 1997, has regularly mocked the US president during his two presidency terms.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Anything other than the world gradually freezing, you mean?” she mocked.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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"They don't have enough land," he said, mocking Russia -- the world's largest country.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
She often does it while deflecting the mocking remarks of rambunctious colleagues Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld, who try to throw off her arguments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
After seeing a stream of comments interpreting it as mocking the security forces, she deleted it quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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
With a mocking “Caw! Caw! Ahoooooooy!” it darted back the way it came.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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