tickle
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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
His evocative depictions of forest scenes are stunning in their own right, hypnotically expressive and made to tickle your id, unearthing deeply rooted primal sensations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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
In December 2023, she noticed symptoms – a chest tickle and discomfort while eating.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
They sway slightly in the breeze, and I can almost feel the tickle of it on my face.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
"You can just take the mick out of that and people get it from just one line. It sometimes tickles that. You know, like that funny bone."
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Your partner tickles your foot — you might reflexively withdraw the foot without waking up and becoming conscious, right?
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024
The habanero tastes fruity, citrusy and flowery before it hits you with a lingering kick that delightfully tickles the tongue.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
Water tickles my ankles, then my calves, then my thighs.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
The park and its surroundings exploded into a collective cheer that tickled my rib cage and resonated deep in my ear canal to the point I had to cover my ears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
She agreed, tickled to reprise her role again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
We were tickled, then, to see another iteration of our favorite story appear in Politico amid Becerra’s rise: an anonymity-heavy piece quoting the politician’s former administration colleagues calling him a loser.
From Slate ● May 9, 2026
"He went to open the curtain and the window was like really tiny, that really tickled me - it was like a prison cell," she said.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
Cat had almost finished the form when something tickled her leg.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
A spontaneous laugh triggered by tickling differs from a polite laugh during a meeting, a nervous laugh after making a mistake, or contagious laughter shared among friends.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
“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 was born to pose backlit by a pyre of flaming zombies and does so here, with the hot wind tickling his locks perfectly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
Alife described lying down on the sidecar as "tummy tickling due to the vibrations" and said it felt like he was "off the ground gliding".
From BBC ● May 26, 2024
So Ess settled down and came to watch as Jinny pulled a frame from the hive, ignoring the bees that crawled and buzzed and settled on her skin, tickling.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
