humor
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According to Psychology Today, “the same neural pathways responsible for generating innovative connections for humor may also create the intense introspection characteristic of depression.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
R.E.M. always had a sense of humor that felt like it got forgotten or overlooked once they were playing stadiums.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
‘We are taking this moment to refine our humor guidelines to ensure . . . satire does not hurt communities and voices that should be uplifted.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
I didn’t feel smarter but I knew I had a different sense of humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
That makes us all laugh, even Pouncey, who isn’t known for his sense of humor.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Health was a state of equilibrium, according to this view, a precarious balance among the body’s four humors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
They thought their health was all about the balancing of bodily humors.
From Slate ● May 8, 2024
Sure, it would take until the 19th century for the germ theory of disease to overtake the concept of humors and “miasmas” that could damage human health.
From National Geographic ● May 25, 2023
The humors, they thought, were linked to both personality characteristics and age.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022
Photographers shooting races would record jockeys in various attitudes of strain; in the middle of it all would be Woolf, smiling the way a man does when he humors a child.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
But they’re a good humored set and don’t like it when tensions linger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
He is hired as an intern by a phony physician whose reputation is founded on knowledge of “a certain professional slang, humored by a medical face.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
The boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
If I was lucky, Dad humored me and would say, Davon, I’ll show you.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2023
He behaved grandiosely, like a special prize that Aunty Uju was fortunate to have, and Aunty Uju humored him.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The tail-wagging golden retrievers and teens humoring their parents cleared out of the way.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
As I have grown older, I have come to realize he wasn’t being humored by me as much as he was humoring me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2022
Ask yourself one question: What’s the downside for humoring me?
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2021
“What’s the harm in humoring him?” the argument went.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2021
“I’m beginning to feel as though I’m humoring myself.”
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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