chuckle
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"Good afternoon. I heard you missed me. Here I am," Melania said with a chuckle as she opened an event in the White House Rose Garden.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
“The pragmatic view is that that is not an issue that has come before us,” Justice Alito says with a chuckle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Yet Schoenbrun’s needle drops also seem to have been chosen to make the audience chuckle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Initially, this shot in “Couture” gave me a chuckle and took me out of the film.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
"Pretty, pretty, pretty bird," Jay squawks, making us all chuckle.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
“My sister and I introduced him to Jockstrap,” Grohl chuckles when I ask what bands she introduced her dad to during those rides.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
“I’m not going to dismiss the case,” Hellerstein said, prompting chuckles in the packed courtroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
She declines, in a moment that drew chuckles in the cinema - "I will see it on the news," she tells him.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
The visual gags that are part of Jake’s physical travails not only elicit chuckles but add a neurodivergent undertone to the story.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025
He chuckles and that ticks me off even more.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Etta says Leto "chuckled" at that, as if it were funny.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Baldoni and his wife smiled and chuckled through the nearly five-minute long video released on Instagram on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
“For me, it was about these empowerment sessions. But somebody reminded me, ‘You know, people like to have fun too,’” Sue chuckled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Some in the crowd of more than 1,000 people in a high-school gym chuckled and applauded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Mother chuckled and whispered back, “Just for the record, you already are.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
"Brother Wang was very important. He was number one," says Enrique, chuckling knowingly.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Many are asking “What happened to Lindsey Graham?,” but nobody is chuckling.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Later we’ll hear a young oligarch say, while chuckling nefariously, “I have a banker’s personality. I love money!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
It’s just one of those things that the robots will be chuckling about to themselves for the next millennium.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026
The next shot showed the famous real estate tycoon Heath Huxley chuckling, “Thanks for doing our digging, kids.”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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