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quip

noun as in witty communication, often verbal

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“I had so much metal inside me, I thought I wouldn’t need a burial when I died—the undertaker could just pop me in the recycling bin,” he quips in “Last Rites.”

If “I ever joined an opinion” with such rhetoric, Scalia quipped, “I would hide my head in a bag.”

The president recently quipped that perhaps the vaccine could be delayed until as late as age 12.

“If you don’t understand it,” he quipped, “you have four months to learn.”

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“Better late than never,” he quipped Wednesday night.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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