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Whales and sharks breach and hunt in the waters beyond the thick kelp forests that tickle its edges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Then she shares a delightful, fact-based piece of trivia like, “Hey, did you know that rats giggle when you tickle them?”

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

But Sora also cost massive compute run time, with OpenAI spending a reported $15 million a day to tickle a nonpaying public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

A whiff of lemongrass and wet soil tickle the nose in Palli Fleischer Lyberth's vertical farm in Sisimiut, the second-largest town in the Danish autonomous territory.

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

I tell him as he continues to tickle.

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya

Instead, he wants them to think, “Dad’s involved, Dad’s helping out, Dad’s giving me tickles before bed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

He added: "Frankly, it tickles most of my family and friends that I'm being portrayed as some huge lefty, because that's not who I am. I'm progressive, and I'm deeply pragmatic in my politics."

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

“He talks very slowly, but he’s brilliant. I think the straighter and more serious they are, the more it tickles me,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

Your partner tickles your foot — you might reflexively withdraw the foot without waking up and becoming conscious, right?

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024

She flips Penny around and kisses her eyes and tickles her armpit.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

Still, judging by trends on social media, it seems a lot of people are tickled by the idea that such an outcome is even remotely possible.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

At last year’s staging of “A Streetcar Named Desire” with Paul Mescal, theatergoers were positively tickled as Blanche DuBois spiraled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

“I’m tickled that I could do something like that for someone.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

"I think she'd be quite tickled by it, really."

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

The poultice sort of tickled but the pain was too vicious and I was fighting the cold too hard.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

After five hours of a painless electric tickling sensation, he had a fresh arm, and he was sent back out into battle.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

It's going to affect your nose and the back of your throat, while some will get a tickling at the back of the mouth.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

“Murderbot,” on the other hand, earns that superlative by tickling us with the thought that while our disquietude about AI’s takeover is legitimate, machines are in no way prepared for every aspect of it.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025

He’s about 1 year old and he’s on the couch with my grandma, and my grandma was making fun of him, maybe tickling him or something, I don’t remember exactly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

There was a flurry of white, a tickling sensation all around me, and when my vision cleared, Annabeth and I had a huge bubble of air around us.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan