mock
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Fans were asked not to leave socks on the mock grave, made of pebbles with messages written on them, because the beach was environmentally sensitive.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Cheer him, mock him or despise him; he’ll be here all week, so try the veal.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
El-Sayed at one point had to direct his supporters not to mock Stevens in gross personal terms online.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
Fand calls up to me, wanting to know why I didn’t attend the rehearsal for the mock war.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
The nation now openly mocks the bearded guerrillas, including Fidel Castro, and their generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
But they may also recognise something more enduring: the persistence of the very systems the film gently mocks.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 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
Outside, a crescent moon mocks her from its perch.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
While there is interest in big Premier League matches, and children wear Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo kits, any attempts to actually play football tend to be mocked, unless it's Aussie rules.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
More devastating, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, mocked Trump’s plan to charge tolls.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
The son must endure the gall of being mocked and seeing his mother importuned by greedy suitors who feast nightly on the family’s stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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
“Naturally, everyone’s heard of it!” mocked the other officer.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
It’s funny, my mother used to look at me with an expression that was neither mocking nor exasperated, merely seasoned, and say, “Baby, not everything needs to be a production.”
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Social media has been flooded with posts from users in Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador and Peru questioning refereeing decisions or expressing disapproval of Argentina, while messages mocking rival teams also proliferated from Argentine accounts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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
Hildy looks at me, her own eyebrows mocking mine.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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