gibe
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Ask Europeans to describe American culture and you’ll eventually hear some version of gibe about our lack of irony: “Americans take everything literally.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
One recalls Talleyrand’s famous gibe at Napoleon for executing the Duke of Enghien in 1804: “It’s worse than a crime; it’s a mistake.”
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2026
The gibe blew Quayle off the debate stage; then, just a few weeks later, Republicans won the White House in a landslide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
They seem to gibe perfectly until they don’t.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2023
Johnny had seen enough of Madge and Dorcas and their suitors to know that the gibe about poor boys aspiring to Miss Lavinia had gone home.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Massie himself gibed to Slate on Saturday that no one is actually voting for Gallrein because almost no one in the district knows him.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
“Where in the World is LaToya Cantrell?” gibed the cover of Gambit, a lively local news magazine.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2022
They came speeding back into contention and gibed just ahead of France to take the lead approaching the final gate and the turn to the finish.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2021
“No kidding!” gibed Susan Rice, a former Barack Obama national security adviser, on Twitter.
From The Guardian ● May 12, 2017
"Of nowhere in the County of No Name," the stranger gibed gravely.
From The Man in Black by Weyman, Stanley John
From the Hill we hear gibing and jeering, All civility fast disappearing.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
The ladies return to France for a year of mourning, promising the lords they will accept their tenders of affection if they undergo a 12-month period of penance for their gibing spirits.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2016
A competitor can flash a little yellow and we all know it’s gibing at Sprint; orange for AT&T; red for Verizon.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2016
Feinting and gibing can't obscure those job numbers.
From Time ● Oct. 11, 2010
And his knowledge accumulated slowly, a reference heard in the street, the gibing talk in the pool hall.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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