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Lifts of all sorts are, no pun intended, on the rise: forehead and brow lifts up 29 percent; arm lifts and neck lifts both up 21 percent.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026

That’s no longer true: A limited number of companies now drive most of its returns as they fuel the buildout of artificial intelligence, and an even smaller handful “chip” in the rest — pun intended.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

As criticism erupted over the tagline, “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,” for drawing a pun in reference to the actress’s blond hair and blue eyes, the president boosted the brand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

If you think that you have read that pun already, that is because you have.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

“You’re pretty good at hiding stuff. No pun intended.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Irony and sarcasm effortlessly poured out, along with puns, bons mots and maxims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Species have been named for ex-spouses, for excrement, for wordplay and puns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

"I'm a physics teacher and I've got a terrible sense of humour," he confesses, so he particularly likes it if the students pick up on his fondness for corny puns.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

One, Todd Kapostasy’s “Bong Voyage,” about the rise and fall and rise of artisanal glassblower Jason Harris, is narrated by one of his creations and includes such dumb puns as “fine piece of glass.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

The name of the gallery is Sub-Versions, one of those puns that used to delight me before they became so fashionable.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

Six years afterwards, Coke was sent to the Tower, and then they punned against him in English.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli

The penchant for punning titles hasn’t diminished, however.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Ms. Goldstein’s punning premise would be meaningless in the languages of Pascal and Kant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

The punning, exuberant text results in a genuinely German version, a “Hamilton” eminently, entirely at home in the language.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Jean Clawed, Dolph Lundgren’s Svengeance and Danny Trejo’s Stronghold round out the punning group, whose lair is hidden beneath a record store cleverly called Criminal Records.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 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