humor
Example Sentences
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“You reveled in his company. He filled you with energy and humor when you felt doubtful and weak,” said Anna Wintour, the global editorial director of Vogue and Conde Nast’s chief content officer.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
“But our audience that’s watching the roast ... you get why they’re doing it, you get why the racial humor is on the table.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
The 1-hour appearance leaned heavily into self-aware humor about scale and spectacle.
From Salon • May 23, 2026
She developed, writes Ms. Lutz, a “weird, witchy” sense of humor, doodled violent images in the margins of her books and made a specialty, in her poetry and prose, of the “nocturnal and crepuscular.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
She was howling with laughter, an ugly kind of humor, the sort that comes from making fun of another person.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Vocabulary lists containing humor
Journalism
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