humor
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You just have to take it with the best humor as you can, and just as I said on my last album, roll with the punches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Come for my colleagues’ smart insights about the midterms, stay for their killer senses of humor.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
She described his "ability to rouse the crowd" and "sense of humor, which he's turned on Trump."
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
He catalogs these versions of the story with cheeky humor, in a tone that doesn’t line up with his oft-asserted love of all things spooky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
I laugh so hard I cry, and when Henek, who has no sense of humor, finally yells, “Churchill, Churchill! God save us all!”
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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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
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
Now, an online exhibition from the National Library of Medicine explores the humors as Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood them, with the help of antique illustrations and the playwright’s words.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022
If the opinions of others aren’t an issue to you, and you want your son to express himself in a way that humors him, then continue along the same path.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2021
This theory, which goes back to the ancient Greeks, declares that health is maintained by a balance of four liquids, or humors, in the body—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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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
If I was lucky, Dad humored me and would say, Davon, I’ll show you.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2023
She humored him, and read all the way through Page 1 and moved onto Page 2 before DeHovitz stopped her.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2023
They humored me in class, letting me fake-fight and do my not-that-form-fitting pushups, but the teacher knew it was something that I didn’t really enjoy.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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The tail-wagging golden retrievers and teens humoring their parents cleared out of the way.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Like, there’s just this boss in charge who, like, doesn’t really seem to know what he’s doing, and everyone’s just kind of humoring him.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
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
“You’re some kind of nut,” Jerry said, humoring him.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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