mock
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Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth separately appeared to mock the physical appearance of a Canadian soldier on social media.
From Barron's ● 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 ● Sep. 2, 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
The influencer said when people find out that she listens to Owens, they often mock her and call her a conspiracy theorist.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
When Muthu saw no response from you to your favorite food, he clapped his hands in mock joy.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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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
She openly mocks her fellow residents with derogatory nicknames, but her outward bravado belies her backstory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
That cheerful sign on the bulletin board mocks me as we walk out the door.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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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
“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 ● Sep. 2, 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
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"They don't have enough land," he said, mocking Russia -- the world's largest country.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
His longtime girlfriend had just broken up with him, his teammates were mocking him behind his back and, at 23, he had crossed the line from prospect to liability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 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
“And I be’s full as a Jersey cow,” said Aunt Loma, mocking her.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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