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My 15-year-old son’s borrowed quip stirred up memories of my father.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Later, when Bond is whisked to Vietnam, the orchestra swells with suave panache, immersing you in the action before 007 has even uttered a quip.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

If the Wayans were able to slip in a joke about Taylor, why didn’t they cut a separate quip about horror never winning Oscars, when Amy Madigan won for “Weapons” the same night?

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

He quickly returned his gaze to Stern for another quip.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Perhaps once he could evoke gales of laughter with a quip, but the sea had taken that power from him, along with half his wits and all his memory.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The British adventurer makes her acrobatic moves against a background of realistic graphics, complete with her trademark sarcastic quips.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Before their departure, a professor jokingly quips to Dwayne: “I can’t wait to have your child in my class in the year 2014.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

"When you are in the job nothing is strange," quips one top-flight recruitment chief.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

His book reads as a conversational account peppered with occasional quips about contemporary political events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

“Don’t let me talk you into playing chess,” she quips, repeating Asher’s warning he’d given me when I’d first met her.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Osman then quipped: "You do look a bit like a competition winner," to which Widdecombe agreed.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Gloria Steinem once quipped: "I can't mate in captivity" - a reference to her disinterest in marriage.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

"Bin day cometh," quipped Binface, the self-styled "intergalactic space warrior" from the fictional planet Sigma IX.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

“It’s going to be a whole different lifestyle,” he quipped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

While on a lantern-slide lecture tour of the United States, it was he who so notoriously quipped, “Because it is there” when an irritating newspaperman demanded to know why he wanted to climb Everest.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Minus the flash, the neon, the tailoring and the quipping, “LifeHack” is a kind of “Ocean’s Eleven” for Gen Z: a breathless, ingenious caper that moves at about 200 megabits per second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

The King concluded his speech by thanking Trump for a "wonderful dinner," quipping that it was "a considerable improvement on the Boston Tea Party".

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

He said it was "very early for that question" and offered no further comment, prompting Letts, 60, to raise a laugh by quipping: "I'm the next James Bond."

From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026

This achievement is all the more remarkable considering that, in the next theater over, Fanning was punching, kicking and quipping in “Predator: Badlands.”

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

It was the meeting-place of the little "quoting, quipping, quaffing" club of fellow-workers in Bohemia; and Lemon, it was explained, had dabbled both in verse and the lighter drama, efforts which were "not half bad."

From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann