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troll

[trohl] / troʊl /


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Courtney Love accused Charli of being a troll.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

The first is that the wedding itself, scattered with Easter eggs like a mirror ball and a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, was engineered expressly to troll the media.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

Spencer Pratt is a showboat, a loudmouth, a troll and a self-proclaimed villain who seems willing to say anything in his quest to be the next mayor of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

Cohen proceeded to troll his skeptics last week, posting on X that he had created his own eBay account to sell stuff “to pay for eBay.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

The troll grabs at Autumn, but she dodges.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Jay Slater's mum 'accused of his murder by trolls'

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Rivadeneira said she even scrubbed her personal social media accounts of photos of her young daughter after trolls began attacking loved ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

One can, on the internet, even encounter trolls akin to the golem versions of real people that we see in the film.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026

"Content farms and internet trolls are happy to oblige them."

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

Frost giants and ogres, trolls and monsters of every kind, all were frightened of Thor’s hammer.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

“They trolled some pretty big names in our popular culture and in the business world,” Krim said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

In 2022 he threatened to invade neighbouring Kenya, triggering a backlash from Kenyans who trolled him for his "reckless" comments.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

For two years, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson oversaw work on a documentary about a hip-hop rival he has personally trolled on the internet for even longer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

The DHS official social media account then trolled Bryan with a video dehumanizing migrants set to his song “Revival.”

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2025

Ted rolled down his window and trolled along beside me.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

T-tracks in the deck allow users to secure the pivoting rod holders where they like, for trolling or bottom fishing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

They square the circle of Swift masterminding a full-scale trolling of media and fans while simultaneously hosting a cotton-candy celebrity circus.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

Nine days after the Negra Francisca sank, another Ecuadorean fishing boat was trolling the fertile fishing grounds off the Galapagos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

South Africans on social media were robust in their response to the trolling.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Big, fancy boats with thousand-dollar trolling rods and gold-plated reels and radar and radios and fancy fish-finders and gallons of frozen chum.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick




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