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Many job seekers are employing artificial intelligence to rehearse asking for a higher salary by using large language models like Claude or ChatGPT to practice a mock negotiation.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

The official Instagram account for the Belgium national team also appeared to mock the debacle, posting a picture of striker Romelu Lukaku cupping his ear with the caption "overturn this".

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

NBA mock drafts projected Cameron Carr getting selected somewhere between 15 and 20 in the first round on Tuesday night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026

Italy's foreign minister on Friday cancelled a visit to the United States over reported comments by US President Donald Trump that appeared to mock Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

He looked around the front hall, took in all the signs of cleaning, ambled over and peered into the parlor, and put on an exaggerated mock expression of being impressed.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

In a chapter titled “The War of the Gods and Demons,” Chesterton mocks the idea that soldiers in a war fight for “abstract” economic or geopolitical advantages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

In fact, Anthropic, which is behind the Claude AI chatbot, indirectly mocks OpenAI’s ChatGPT in its ad.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026

She identifies herself as a U.S. citizen and lightly mocks Ross for filming their license plates.

From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2026

West featured as the boss of a fictional big bank who mocks customers while planning branch closures.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

“It not only mocks in most instances the power of medicine, but it has spread thro’ several parts of the city remote from the spot where it originated.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

More devastating, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, mocked Trump’s plan to charge tolls.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026

But in her outraged response, Stuckey became most emotional over an aside in which I mocked her for denying that dinosaurs existed millions of years before humans.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Charles Dickens’s “Little Dorrit” mocked the civil service with the fictional Circumlocution Office, which was dedicated to the science of “how not to do it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Some South Koreans mocked their own team after Japanese media reported that Japan had a strong chance of reaching the quarter-finals if it faced South Korea in the last 16.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Their leader clambered to the top of a great rock, and he mocked them for their lack of faith.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Lalas would return two days later, and get in a jab, mocking Zlatan’s light-colored suit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Italy reacted angrily on Friday after reported comments by US President Donald Trump mocking Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, with the foreign minister cancelling a planned US visit.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

"We absolutely need that as we're mocking things up, but then you come here and you have the best brass players in the world... It's mind-blowing."

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

A lawyer representing Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is calling for the destruction of all copies of an extremely limited-edition, Operation-style board game mocking SGA for ‘foul baiting.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Within the hall the suitors, idly loafing after their meal, were in a mood to make fun of the miserable old beggar who entered, and Odysseus listened to all their mocking words with submissive patience.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton