pun
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After she responds by asking, in a flat, noncombative tone, “Do your children not understand what a pun is?,”
From Slate • May 4, 2026
At every moment, prioritizing one quality—perhaps a line’s rhythm—means sacrificing another: a pun, a joke, the velocity of a particular thought.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
Richard is one of a kind — no pun intended.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
The morning newspapers saluted him with "Zendabad" - a pun on zindabad, the Urdu word for long live.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025
An endless number of painfully dull classes have been rescued by a perfectly timed Cooley pun.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
Vocabulary lists containing pun
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Middle School
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 4
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