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zinger

noun as in one-liner

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noun as in snappy comeback

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One of Ms. Badenoch’s best zingers: “While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors.”

But the real problem with Gutfeld’s comedy is that he tries to offer zingers to versions of reality he has entirely fabricated, like his crack about math being what happens to other people.

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They also land good zingers about what Gen Z considers passé.

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In the first four episodes made available for review, Wednesday’s zingers aren’t as wickedly sharp as they once were.

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One of his zingers repeated by The Washington Post was, ”Well I guess the question now is, ‘What did the President know, and when did he decide he didn’t know it?'”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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