Example Sentences

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Altman has long toyed with the idea of getting the federal government involved with OpenAI, asking whether it would be interested in funding the AI lab years before ChatGPT launched.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Messi toyed with United like a kid on the Playstation - twisting, turning, nutmegging defenders whose flailing white shirts might as well have been a call for surrender.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

In no episode has Kelly made this clearer than in the one that ran on Nov. 12, in which she toyed with a bit of Jeffrey Epstein apologia.

From Slate • May 6, 2026

They toyed with “M. Butterfly,” the masterpiece that earned Hwang his Tony, but kept gravitating toward “Flower Drum Song.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

She toyed with her knife making circular depressions in a pat of butter and the movement hypnotized me.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes