smiley
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“Say it’s not,” her campaign manager replied with a smiley face in a text reviewed by the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
I left our short chat feeling uplifted by how smiley and polite he was in daylight and while we were sober.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
“It’s A No For Me,” he tersely posted on social media, accompanied by a smiley face emoji wearing shades.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
Images on social media showed a person scaling the fence in a costume that included a smiley face head with sunglasses, prompting the monkeys to scatter.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Her reply had been a dozen smiley faces, which I’d taken to mean she approved.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
The original Twitter thread, laden with exclamation points and smileys, aimed to provoke amazement and incredulity.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
Yellow smileys painted on the tarmac reminded everyone to keep atwo metres apart.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2020
Second place receives a big puffy foamy top hat in psychedelic colors and printed with all sorts of groovy peace signs and flowers and smileys.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2018
These monochromatic buttons share little more than a basic concept with the slickly designed, subtly drop-shaded smileys and figurines we know today.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2015
We call them smileys because when you’re done eating all the meat off it, the goat looks like it’s smiling at you from the plate.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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