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tickling

NOUN
tickle
Synonyms


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“In my dream, you kept getting closer to me, and then you started tickling me,” Linda tells him during a session, early in the film.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 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

If Potts' first wicket, Latham tickling down the leg side, came from an innocuous delivery, his second was vital.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

“Training Season,” her demand for a partner who already knows “how to love me right,” has tickling guitar syncopations and girl-group harmonies popping out of nowhere.

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

And at that moment I taste the chalk in my mouth, feel it tickling my throat.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass




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