joke
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There’s this old joke about a guy’s first day in hell.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
"The joke of Ali G is that he was a maximally clueless white-bro poseur," the review continued.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Das and Ranka are key leaders of the CJP, which began as an internet joke in May after India's top judge compared unemployed young people to "cockroaches".
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
As the joke goes, the Indian economy has gone from self-reliance to Reliance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
He makes a joke out of it, but I can tell he’s relieved I’m okay.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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For some, it was a chance at redemption after years of weathering jokes about their accents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
The jokes are for you guys, but I’ve built it, man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Through it all, Vance seems to be hoping that the crowd that sees his “Christian charity” face isn’t the same one showing up to hoot at his lame “no homo” jokes about the devout Talarico.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
"The little meet-cutes don't happen so much when you're at home with your shirt up top and your pyjamas down bottom," she jokes.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
“Fredrick never jokes when it comes to his hunting parties,” chirped Lady Constance.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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“Some words, if I say it with the Boston accent, you might not even know what word I’m trying to say,” he joked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
They laughed and joked all the way to midcourt before Hachimura resumed his shooting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
"As soon as he struck it, I knew it was in. He's taken the club goal of the season off me," joked Brighton skipper Dunk.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Georgieva joked Warsh disappointed half, or more, of the audience.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
When he sent her a telegram for their “Sixteenth Monthiversary,” he joked that each letter and punctuation mark was a code standing for “I love you!”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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When she floated the idea that AI might solve it one day, the suggestion was so preposterous that he thought she was joking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
He was something exciting and fresh when he pantsed the pop culture landscape in the late 1990s, but joking about how much everything sucks is a young man’s game.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
"He messaged back and was like, 'If you're actually not joking, I'd be honoured'."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
She later posted a photograph with her doppelganger, joking that the resemblance was "pure coincidence, not strategy".
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Except while most of the other kids crowd the hallways joking and laughing and comparing outfits, Elsie and I lock the door to our room and begin our investigation into the disappearance of VanQuish.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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