mock
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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
Names that NBA executives and mock drafts attached to the Lakers are Kentucky center Jayden Quaintance, Texas forward Dailyn Swain and Duke wing Isaiah Evans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
Italy's foreign minister on Friday cancelled a visit to the United States over reported comments by US President Donald Trump that appeared to mock Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
The mayor posed for pictures with shoppers in a mock picture frame decorated in the English national colours of red and white.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
When the mock war is over, my eye is blackened and both of my knees are skinned and the gold side has won the second and third battles.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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
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
Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, mocks both of them.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025
When Michelangelo mocks Leonardo for not delivering the goods, this is what he seizes on: You had eighty tons of bronze, and you still couldn’t get that statue done, you fool.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
While there is interest in big Premier League matches, and children wear Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo kits, any attempts to actually play football tend to be mocked, unless it's Aussie rules.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
More devastating, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, mocked Trump’s plan to charge tolls.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Charles Dickens’s “Little Dorrit” mocked the civil service with the fictional Circumlocution Office, which was dedicated to the science of “how not to do it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Its members have mocked hard-shell cholos and gangsters, often by placing them in funny scenarios.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
The major had not grasped that he was being mocked.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Italy reacted angrily on Friday after reported comments by US President Donald Trump mocking Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, with the foreign minister cancelling a planned US visit.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
"We absolutely need that as we're mocking things up, but then you come here and you have the best brass players in the world... It's mind-blowing."
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
The company unveiled the collaboration on its website with a video of the auteur using Flux to storyboard scenes, which involves mocking up shots before filming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
But in the superb new production of the tragedy at the Shakespeare Theatre Company here, directed by Simon Godwin, they take on an almost mocking tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
He could feel the red eye mocking him.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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