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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

“I’m a mini driver, pun intended. I need to celebrate the car that saved us, because we’ve got families and people who love us, and I am so grateful to be alive,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Being part of the Big Bang Universe, no pun intended, means a star shower of guest shots throughout the series.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Many turned on funny tricks—a silly keyword, perhaps, or a pun.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

"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

The subject provides a bumper crop of puns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Customers flipped out when they announced the sale, grilling the sisters — puns intended — about whether the restaurant would close.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 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 met him once for thirty minutes, and he made six puns and said “oh, fudge” twice.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

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

No one speaks without the foreknowledge that he is to be caught up, punned up, or ridiculed, as the case may be.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

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

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

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

That’s why the show is loaded with so many “adult” elements, the constant punning and pop culture references like Monsterpiece Theater or the Samuel Beckett parody “Waiting for Elmo.”

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell