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Toño is a wonderful character, a Quixote-like figure who is laughably naive yet strangely compelling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

“So this notion that anyone got rid of Gail to help any client is laughably stupid on its face.”

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

But “no-brainer” takes on a dual meaning when it comes to “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2,” a laughably cheesy, empty-headed follow-up that makes the mediocre prior film shine in comparison.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Sometimes multiple cars would have the same plates; sometimes the numbers were laughably fake: ABC1234, for instance.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

For a small man, he had been cursed with a danger-ously big mouth, he reflected as he crawled back to his comer of what the Arryns laughably called their dungeon.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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