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I had long admired her, especially the rollicking and indispensable “Slow Days, Fast Company,” first published in 1977, a charming and insightful series of stories bursting with pluck and sass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

The shows are part of her biggest tour to date, which showcases a newfound confidence - in terms of styling, sass and choreography - from an artist who initially performed under a shroud of anonymity.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

In her own way – with a mixture of sass, fun and her distinctive cup of ambition – Dolly Parton asks us to do the same.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026

It’s not just the look, but it’s also like the way that they carry themselves and how much sass, how much class, and you know how these women behave.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

Even Pelicarnassus and the lions who played football didn’t sass her.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

"Witty remarks won't make a difference," Sansa sasses, but she soothes the burn by telling him, quite tenderly, that he was the best of all her husbands.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2019

Even as she eye-rolls and sasses Christian, there is no demand with which she ultimately declines to comply, from skipping out on her work trip to committing to spend her life at his side.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2017

So instead, we get the lumpy neo-reggae of “Unapologetic Bitch,” in which she sasses a boy-toy: “See you trying to call me, but I blocked you on my phone.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2015

"No smoking--foreign, domestic or homegrown," one guide sasses near Epcot's 18-story Spaceship Earth geosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lord knows," said Aunt Dilsey, "fust time she sasses me, I'll run away long of Jack and the baby.

From Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes

Mr. Ghesquière’s modern-day stray cats had patchwork jackets sassed up with leopard print, but also great tailored pieces, like cocooning, almost corseted-looking blazers.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2017

Another sassed, “If you have to ask ..you havnt done it properly..LOL.”

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2014

She sassed the audience until it talked back.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2010

Jay Leno will be sociably sassed by fellow TV staples as he accepts the Kennedy Center’s 17th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Oct.

From Washington Post

It started out ’cause Cooter Bixby went and sassed Mr. Travis when he didn’t know he’d done it and when he didn’t mean to do it.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Jennie, Rosé, Jisoo and Lisa easily nailed a mix of Coachella cool and K-pop razzle-dazzle, stomping and sassing beneath a towering temple roof and making the most of the gigantic stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

Lee steals every scene she's in, whether she's wordlessly transfixed by pulling a thread taut between her fingers or sassing a religious game player.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2021

“If you took a family photo right now, you got Grandma with an oxygen tank, probably sassing the photographer.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2016

Varys tries sassing her, which backfires: she elevates the art of eunuch-taunting to a level that should make Tyrion feel ashamed.

From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016

Derric wasn’t a violent kid in school, but he wasn’t above sassing off in class, or getting others into trouble because of his verbal antics.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger