poke
Example Sentences
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Kunis was able to poke fun at herself for getting so frustrated, revealing that her job is far easier than that of many other HOA presidents—because her neighborhood association only incorporates eight households.
From MarketWatch
This Badger-written column may have delighted many times in poking cheap fun at Michigan football, but not today.
For most American infants, the hepatitis B shot comes just before their first bath, in the blur of pokes, prods and pictures that attend a 21st century hospital delivery.
From Los Angeles Times
They then compared those counts with baseline stress hormone levels and found a clear relationship: rats that poked more often tended to have higher starting levels of stress hormones.
From Science Daily
The AI bot trounced all except one of the 10 professional network penetration testers the Stanford researchers had hired to poke and prod, but not actually break into, their engineering network.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
