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laugh

[laf] / læf /




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"I opened the package, and there was a giant, 200-year-old eyeball sitting on dry ice just staring back at me," the 28-year-old says with a laugh.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

It helps if we can laugh about it.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2026

But as they got to know each other, Dent, who is originally from Cumbria, said she made Locatelli laugh and joked that her northern accent had begun to infiltrate his Italian one.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

It made me laugh so hard, I knew from that point on that he was a kindred spirit.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

I made a noise somewhere between a laugh and a sob.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

“Heretic” was underbaked and half-thought, while “Companion” tried to create big laughs and bigger action from minuscule ideas.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

While Gervais's cringeworthy character David Brent provided many of the belly laughs, the ever-present Dawn and her love interest Tim Canterbury, played by Martin Freeman, gave the show its emotional backbone.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Sometimes the Terminal Crew laugh at certain details the audience wouldn’t pick up on — laughs that were only meant for his friends.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

He gets more easy, unforced laughs than anyone, especially when it comes to a bout of “scromiting.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

I knew one of their laughs right away.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

I laughed when a protégé called me a digital nomad in the gig economy, like him.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

The organisers of Sydney Marathon have laughed off a mistake which saw a German stadium etched on to medals for participants, saying "we're not going to run from it".

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

Jenkins says, after that, “We hung out a lot and laughed and talked … I mean, we became friends in seven episodes. In the miniseries and in life, we became friends.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

On Sunday Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, asked about the bonkers statements young radical candidates made a few years ago that damage their electability today, laughed it off by quoting a friend: “Woke 1 was crazy.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Grandpa laughed, got up from his chair, and said, “Come here—I’ve got something to show you.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

It’s much harder the other way around, but it also works the other way around where you catch an audience off guard because they’re laughing and then you hit them with horror.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

But it ends with a blooper shot where Burnham fumbles to catch the helmet and bursts out laughing.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

For months, “it was difficult to speak, and the radiating pain was so intense that even modest movement—from laughing to getting dressed to turning on the shower—was wrenching,” she wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Fofana was arguably the fall guy for many supporters, not helped by footage of him laughing on the bench during a heavy Champions League defeat by Paris St-Germain in March.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Gabi grabs me and pulls me in for a massive hug when I get back to my seat, and I can’t help laughing.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler




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