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I grew up in the 1980s too, and here’s a fun fact about Generation X: The American Institute of Stress says we are apparently more stressed out than other generations.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
When Dowling asked him what reaction he intended, Gibbins said: "It was tongue-in-cheek, a bit naughty, but I thought it was fun."
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Leading out White to the podium on Monday, Trump said he had been "having a little fun."
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
“I hire on vibes — if they’re fun, have a great attitude and have a nurturing, calm presence, and are talented at what they do,” says Robbins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
At least no one else had been on the bus to hear the driver making fun of them.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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“It’s not funner with other directors, Steven’s much more nicer, like a million nicers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Zoe: Anna is the funner sister because Elsa acts too proper.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2019
“This is one of the funner units to be around.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 15, 2018
A metaphor about offense to describe the process to acquire pitching is kind of amusing and even funner given the Mariners baserunning woes last season as a team.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2017
Walking all this way to give Mr. Leroy a plate of food was worth it ’cause waren’t nothing scarier nor funner than watching him eat fish.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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In the documentary, Dawson said: "It was the funnest summer of my life."
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
“It was the funnest time ever,” she says, and rewarding in ways she never expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2025
“These are some of the funnest games we’ve played all year,” Judge said.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2023
It's like some of the funnest times I've had in my community, where you're with them all night long telling stories of the stupid stuff they did growing up.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2022
College football, to me, was America at its best, wildest and funnest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
Nearly 25% of the money generated under the proposed tax would go to permanent affordable housing that would be funned in a manner similar to Proposition HHH.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
It’s clear that he’s having a blast, and his spirit of funning irreverence supercharges the entire narrative like home-brewed black lightning.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2020
Some of Galassi’s funning does skirt simple one-to-one identification: A Nobel Prize-winning Dutch essayist is called van Meegeren, a name mainly associated with a notorious art forger.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2015
How he got here: Wins in the O'Reilly Stakes and the Limbaugh Derby — oh, just funning you.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2015
When John Cleese delivers a diatribe to a shyster pet-shop owner while flogging the dead parrot that has been sold to him, the funning is lethally potent.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She was funning with me again, but she was trying to teach me a lesson too.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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