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Fyrish Monument, near Alness, is a mock ruin called a folly on the summit of the hill Cnoc Fyrish, which overlooks the Cromarty Firth.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hwang gathered along with 30 neighbours for a session in August, practising how to pay hospital bills at mock kiosks, patting a prancing robot dog, or asking their phones: "Gemini, tell me about tomorrow's weather."

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

“I would call it mock heroic or satiric. Miller’s is more of a sledgehammer. I wanted to write an ending for this moment that would connect with audiences.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Cheer him, mock him or despise him; he’ll be here all week, so try the veal.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

Stick opened the closet door to release Bucky, who put on a mock pout.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

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

"It cruelly mocks the suffering of people who risk everything to flee war, persecution, and hardship in search of safety," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 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

The political editor of KSDK-TV in St. Louis, Schmitt’s home market, mocked him openly for the mistake.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

He then mocked one of the main topics of this year’s General Assembly—an effort to put restraints on artificial intelligence, which Trump said should be called superintelligence, because the word artificial makes it sound “fake.”

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 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 ● Sep. 18, 2026

South Park, which has run since 1997, has regularly mocked the US president during his two presidency terms.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

And this she had remembered as she thrust him from her; with what had perhaps been her last breath she had mocked him and his father with this name.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

"They don't have enough land," he said, mocking Russia -- the world's largest country.

From Barron's ● 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 ● Sep. 14, 2026

After seeing a stream of comments interpreting it as mocking the security forces, she deleted it quickly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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 ● Aug. 27, 2026

Even though he was breathing heavily, his mocking tone was still clear.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin