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Lifts of all sorts are, no pun intended, on the rise: forehead and brow lifts up 29 percent; arm lifts and neck lifts both up 21 percent.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026

He is still building back his strength, no pun intended.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

That’s no longer true: A limited number of companies now drive most of its returns as they fuel the buildout of artificial intelligence, and an even smaller handful “chip” in the rest — pun intended.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Being part of the Big Bang Universe, no pun intended, means a star shower of guest shots throughout the series.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

That’s right, Big Mama Bear is always showing the whole world how to, no pun intended, find its bearings.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

Species have been named for ex-spouses, for excrement, for wordplay and puns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

"I'm a physics teacher and I've got a terrible sense of humour," he confesses, so he particularly likes it if the students pick up on his fondness for corny puns.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Customers flipped out when they announced the sale, grilling the sisters — puns intended — about whether the restaurant would close.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Clement “was fascinated by powerful businessmen,” Bartholomew added, and he “appears to have further believed that their very names are puns that reveal God’s purposes.”

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

Usually bird puns off my name are irritating, but it’s like she doesn’t even realize she’s doing it.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

Parton punned, adding, “That was such a baaad joke.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023

Perhaps the Anthropocene has already become an anthropomeme: punned and pimped into stuplimity, its presence in popular discourse often just a virtue signal that merely mandates the user to proceed with the work of consumption.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2016

He created sentences that punned with double meanings, and arranged elaborate pranks for his sister and friends — these often involved water balloons.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2014

Perhaps he still smarted at the “Joys and Sarris” subtitle of Kael’s 1963 screed; she had punned on a mispronunciation of his name, which rhymes with Harris, not Doris.

From Time ● Jun. 21, 2012

He punned on the Latin version—derived the meaning of Hebrew words from Latin etymologies....

From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley

The penchant for punning titles hasn’t diminished, however.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Ms. Goldstein’s punning premise would be meaningless in the languages of Pascal and Kant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Here, his punning sense of humor emerges yet again: He depicts Chinese and Aboriginal delegates engaged in “cordial” relations — by drinking cordial together.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2021

On some other show, Ted Lasso is like the impossibly sunny colleague, always punning, who refuses to ever have a bad attitude.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2020

There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides—enormous Mack eagles with two heads perhaps, or wyverns, or lances, or oak trees, or punning signs which referred to the names of the owners.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White