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Maybe with “Cars” safely in the rearview mirror, and me having just exhausted my one bad pun per story with this sentence, Pixar can return to consistent greatness.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

A number of industry names have recently found their footing, pun intended, at key moving averages, and are starting to outperform the broader market on a relative-strength basis.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Writing to Hollander in 1972, Bloom came up with the pun “anxiety of influenza.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

They may be the subject of - pardon the pun - heated debate, almost religious in its fervour.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

“Perhaps Lady Constance will not be the only surprise to tumble out of the Ashton family ‘tree,’” she thought, unable to resist a leafy pun of her own.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

The subject provides a bumper crop of puns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Clement “was fascinated by powerful businessmen,” Bartholomew added, and he “appears to have further believed that their very names are puns that reveal God’s purposes.”

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

But it’s more than witty puns and costumes that make Snoopy’s Legendary Rooftop Concert special.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

Then there’s Deflategate, which involved underinflated balls and led to a suspension for Brady and some of the worst puns ever made.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

Linguists term this decisive innovation, which also underlies puns today, the rebus principle.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Parton punned, adding, “That was such a baaad joke.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023

Perhaps the Anthropocene has already become an anthropomeme: punned and pimped into stuplimity, its presence in popular discourse often just a virtue signal that merely mandates the user to proceed with the work of consumption.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2016

He created sentences that punned with double meanings, and arranged elaborate pranks for his sister and friends — these often involved water balloons.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2014

Perhaps he still smarted at the “Joys and Sarris” subtitle of Kael’s 1963 screed; she had punned on a mispronunciation of his name, which rhymes with Harris, not Doris.

From Time ● Jun. 21, 2012

Of Humour.—Much may be accomplished in this line by giving your characters names that are easily punned upon.

From Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama by Various

For many years American Jewish writing seemed to be all about sons—sons launched from Chicago, Brooklyn and the Bronx, sons of overprotective mothers, comics punning on “the son also rises.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

Wait a minute, was the New York Times punning with its Wordle on Veteran’s Day?

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2022

In 2007, they made a series of posters for the New York Art Book Fair, with punning slogans like “What’s the plan, Uzbekistan? I’m your man, Azerbaijan!” or “Men Are From Murmansk/Women Are From Vilnius.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

That's not to say Passeportout is without humor as Verne clearly couldn't resist punning with that name.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022

There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides—enormous Mack eagles with two heads perhaps, or wyverns, or lances, or oak trees, or punning signs which referred to the names of the owners.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White