mock
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When they held a mock negotiation at the end of the summer, three of the four finalists were from the group that did the simulations, says Megan Ma, the lab’s executive director.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 26, 2026
She stopped in the middle of the woods during a walk, looked with disapproval at my light jacket, and threw her hands up in mock confusion, surveying the snow-encrusted pines.
From Salon β Sep. 19, 2026
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth separately appeared to mock the physical appearance of a Canadian soldier on social media.
From Barron's β Sep. 8, 2026
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is under fire in Canada for a social media post that appears to mock members of the country's cadet youth programme.
From BBC β Sep. 2, 2026
For Béroud, the glass was a problem, not a solution, and on this Tuesday morning, he was planning a painting that would mock it.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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 β Feb. 18, 2026
In fact, Anthropic, which is behind the Claude AI chatbot, indirectly mocks OpenAI’s ChatGPT in its ad.
From MarketWatch β Feb. 6, 2026
She identifies herself as a U.S. citizen and lightly mocks Ross for filming their license plates.
From Slate β Jan. 9, 2026
West featured as the boss of a fictional big bank who mocks customers while planning branch closures.
From BBC β 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
A website mocked up by commercial real estate brokerage RDE Advisors celebrates its many advantages.
From Slate β Sep. 18, 2026
My career was insulted, and I was mocked for fumbling around while attempting to juice a pineapple with a woefully inadequate kitchen utensil.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 18, 2026
"When we launched this debate... we were mocked, people said it was totally unrealistic," Bodskov said.
From Barron's β Sep. 4, 2026
“It’s amazing to see how willing students are to talk in his classrooms, how little afraid they feel of being mocked or put down—he gets complete candor out of them.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 2, 2026
The gray rock mocked me, bobbing on the water easy as a lifebuoy.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
"They don't have enough land," he said, mocking Russia -- the world's largest country.
From Barron's β Sep. 26, 2026
She often does it while deflecting the mocking remarks of rambunctious colleagues Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld, who try to throw off her arguments.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 14, 2026
The U.S. defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, posted a photo on social media of two young women at a Canadian cadet training center that was interpreted as mocking their weight and gender.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 2, 2026
Phillips ultimately lost his job with Collins too, this time after crudely mocking a rival political operative whose wife had accused former NBC journalist Matt Lauer of rape.
From Slate β Aug. 27, 2026
The quiet and the way the setting sun seemed to wash the cabin in peace, as if everything were right with the world, suddenly felt mocking to Peter.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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