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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

“I’m a mini driver, pun intended. I need to celebrate the car that saved us, because we’ve got families and people who love us, and I am so grateful to be alive,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

If you think that you have read that pun already, that is because you have.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Maybe with “Cars” safely in the rearview mirror, and me having just exhausted my one bad pun per story with this sentence, Pixar can return to consistent greatness.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

It’s Baba’s favorite joke in Spanish, a pun.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

The brothers staunchly disagree with the maxim that puns are the lowest form of humor, and their works are almost universally branded with gratingly unfunny names.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

Then there’s Deflategate, which involved underinflated balls and led to a suspension for Brady and some of the worst puns ever made.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

He followed it with a succession of intensely theatrical divertissements, often revolving around unexpected intellectual conceits or bizarre juxtapositions and featuring brilliant dialogue, puns, repartee, double meanings and misunderstandings.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

I met him once for thirty minutes, and he made six puns and said “oh, fudge” twice.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

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

"His wrist is all right and his letter will be all write," punned Roger.

From The Khaki Boys over the Top Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam by Gordon Bates

For many years American Jewish writing seemed to be all about sons—sons launched from Chicago, Brooklyn and the Bronx, sons of overprotective mothers, comics punning on “the son also rises.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

Wait a minute, was the New York Times punning with its Wordle on Veteran’s Day?

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2022

Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Jean Clawed, Dolph Lundgren’s Svengeance and Danny Trejo’s Stronghold round out the punning group, whose lair is hidden beneath a record store cleverly called Criminal Records.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022

That's not to say Passeportout is without humor as Verne clearly couldn't resist punning with that name.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022

That’s why the show is loaded with so many “adult” elements, the constant punning and pop culture references like Monsterpiece Theater or the Samuel Beckett parody “Waiting for Elmo.”

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell