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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

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

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Still, even when dealing with corpses, Walker’s characters can deftly deliver a one-liner or a bad pun when the mood needs lightening; she doesn’t really think along drama versus comedy lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

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

Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point, and the pun is very much intended.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

The subject provides a bumper crop of puns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

A few steps down the street, the late Juan Delgadillo’s Snow Cap Drive-In is still in business, full of bright colors and silly puns, now run by his son, John.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 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

I’ll take it easy on the puns from here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

“You made terrible puns, cheated at dice, and criticized the meter of my excellent poems, but you were once a phenomenal healer.”

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

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

He punned on the Latin version—derived the meaning of Hebrew words from Latin etymologies....

From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley

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

Older viewers should get a kick out of the punning dialogue and meta-humor, which wryly calls out homages to Batman, Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 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