toy with

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For almost as long, she’s also made experimental folk and electronic records that toy with avant-garde noise and quietly poignant songwriting.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

"You become sentimental about your child's toy, but you're nostalgic of the time you used to play with that toy with your child," explains Kiosses.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025

For her Netflix version, Smith Metzler tweaks the plot to toy with our unconscious ideas of upper-class power dynamics.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

Lionel Messi didn’t toy with defenders in the MLS Cup final.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2024

She looked like a carved whirligig toy with six flying arms and a hopping head.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson