taunt
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So was the incident really a warning or a taunt to the local community from hare coursers?
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The residents cheer and taunt and follow from a safe distance.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
Then, Anthropic unveiled Super Bowl ads that taunt rival OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Guadagnino makes Hank look so shady that it feels like a taunt: We’re dumb if we trust Hank and doubly dumb if he’s innocent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
But the children did not taunt him or shout at him as they should for he carried a little cloud of fear about with him.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
One of the most famous episodes in Homer’s poem finds Odysseus and his men facing the Cyclops Polyphemus in his cave, where their struggle becomes a battle of wits: lies, taunts, a drunken ruse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Smith, who has been the target of England fans' taunts since his role in the 2018 ball-tampering incident against South Africa, saw them though.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
Karp seems to revel in his company’s unconventional ascent, and taunts the analysts who question it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
But the reality for Ben Stokes's men is they have an appalling record in Australia and the taunts will mean little when hostilities begin on November 21 at the first Test in Perth.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
The entire three-story brick wall was bombed with graffiti, taunts from our rivals, the Blue Devils.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
That’s why Ham is swift to insist he’s being taunted, even when he’s not.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
The woman alleged that Jackson repeatedly refused to delete the video and then taunted her with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Without a clutch of England stars - rested after their run to the World Cup final in Japan - Saracens' stand-in squad members were taunted by the local fans in the Shed stand.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
The few protesters taunted the agents, who mostly amused themselves.
From Slate ● May 29, 2026
How many times had he been taunted by Morris’s death?
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
England flanker Henry Pollock added to the decibels in the hours before Wednesday's match, with footage emerging of the 21-year-old back row taunting local football fans gathering for the match in Plaza de la Republica.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Neither incidents involved taunting players from the opposing team, and both of those techs have reportedly been rescinded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Sean Duffy is even taunting Pete Buttigieg about it, in a bout of dreaded intra–transportation secretary violence.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
From my perspective as a political philosopher, these and other similar claims indicate he is speaking falsely as a way of demeaning or taunting his detractors.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026
Two figures leaped up in silhouette when they heard him and fled into the night with taunting laughter before he could get there.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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