punning

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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

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

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2022

Here, his punning sense of humor emerges yet again: He depicts Chinese and Aboriginal delegates engaged in “cordial” relations — by drinking cordial together.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2021

On some other show, Ted Lasso is like the impossibly sunny colleague, always punning, who refuses to ever have a bad attitude.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2020

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