wordplay

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Despite this, Wardle and a team of collaborators recently launched Parseword, a wordplay game inspired by Wardle's attempts to get to grips with cryptic crossword puzzles.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

“What doesn’t kill you calls you six months later” — that’s about as clean as Nashville wordplay gets.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

He spun wordplay, philosophical debates and scientific principles into popular theatrical entertainment, landing a string of West End and Broadway hits, and won a best-screenplay Oscar for the smash Hollywood film “Shakespeare in Love.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

Does Ellie have any sort of sense of wordplay?

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025

There is none of the humor or wordplay or cleverness that characterizes Sesame Street.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell