wordplay
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Despite this, Wardle and a team of collaborators recently launched Parseword, a wordplay game inspired by Wardle's attempts to get to grips with cryptic crossword puzzles.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
Frank Drebin, Neeson kept us in hysterics with a stupid-brilliant barrage of surreal wordplay and daffy slapstick.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
How wordplay and devilish games of deduction can be as satisfying to the soul as a song.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Does Ellie have any sort of sense of wordplay?
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
You’d make it perfectly literal, without any wordplay or comedy that would confuse preschoolers.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
