clown
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They include depictions of Manila as a clown and a snake, among other things.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
A clown paints children's faces, music fills the air, as families spread picnic carpets across the grass.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
The LP revolved around a sad clown persona, a facade to cope with her harsh internal criticism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Most know Morgan as a singular kind of clown who pulls everyone’s focus simply by entering a room.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
Yet when he was laughed at it cut him to the quick—he got rough and loud like a sort of clown.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
For all its clowns and pratfalls, it’s quietly one of television’s great food shows.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Say you don’t pay much attention to the nitty-gritty of politics and think they’re all a bunch of clowns.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
Companies like Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey offered elephants, equestrian acts, clowns and contortionists in a huge Big Top that could seat thousands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
She said: "It's like a circus coming to town, and then you've got various clowns, and they've thrown their toys out of the pram at the first issue that's come along."
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2025
“Get these clowns away from me!” a gray-haired one hollers.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
“Strangers clowned us,” former Ambassadors player Victoria Henson told me the other day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
His song Thick Of It, which features Trippie Redd, was nominated for song of the year - despite being something he was "clowned for".
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025
The Apollo 7 astronauts also won a special Emmy award for their daily television reports from orbit, during which they clowned around, held up humorous signs and educated earthlings about space flight.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
Players gave it a try because they trusted their owner, the guy who danced and clowned for them every night, festooned from head to toe in yellow.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2022
Boys clowned and made faces trying to make her laugh, but she looked straight ahead and never even cracked a smile.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Expect games, clowning and catharsis that transform helplessness into empowerment and isolation into belonging.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
But when it goes away, so do our nightly doses of Colbert’s affable clowning, the kind that irritates thin-skinned despots in a way other comics can’t quite match.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
The clowning might be a little too effortful.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Or maybe it was that the clowning that marked the career of Ron Luciano masked a deeper sadness that finally claimed the life of baseball’s happy warrior in a size-50 extralong dark blazer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
They had all come back with Purple Hearts, but it didn’t seem as if the war had changed Harley; he was still a little fat, and he still made them laugh, joking and clowning.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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