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From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi and translator Lin King won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for "Taiwan Travelogue", a playful postcolonial novel with a culinary bent.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
It’s loose and playful, which would seem to be a plus, but it’s too shaggy and imprecise to land, and sometimes seems as if it were made up on the spot.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Evoking classics of the ‘60s and ’70s Latin American boom, the novel is sensual and darkly comic, suffused with the sense that, as Arias writes, “fate was a cruel, playful thing.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
I give Autumn one last playful side-eye, glance once more at the cinnamon rolls, head to the kitchen, and try to break my record for the Fastest Dishwashing Session Ever award.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing playful
In the Mood? 100 Words to Describe Emotions
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ACT Reading Test: Words to Capture Tone, List 6
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Tone and Point of View, List 2
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