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quip

[kwip] / kwɪp /


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He quickly returned his gaze to Stern for another quip.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Some pointed to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s pre-dinner quip that there would be “shots fired” in Trump’s speech.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

At Sunday’s Golden Globes, host Nikki Glaser made a quip about the channel as “BS News” right in front of Paramount-Skydance CEO David Ellison.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

Peter Marino, the architect of many of luxury’s biggest flagships, likes to quip that Versailles would never have been built if Louis XIV had been told luxury had to be small.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Carmencita's quip in English is the product of her two or three years away in boarding school in the States.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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