pun

Example Sentences

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This was all before sources told The Times last week that Bass ordered an after-action report on the Palisades fire be — no pun intended — watered down to limit legal liability against the city.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026

As a viewer begins to realize, these blind alleys, pun intended, are going to lead nowhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

The morning newspapers saluted him with "Zendabad" - a pun on zindabad, the Urdu word for long live.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

Those ads, which centered around a pun on the phrase “good genes,” were accused of promoting eugenics.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

After a second, he mumbles to himself, "Credit, people, consumerism. . . . There's a pun in there somewhere."

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan