gallows
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Schrader, who turns 80 in July, spoke about the coming upheaval with a mixture of fascination, resignation and dry gallows humor.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Many China hawks in the administration have taken to gallows humor, calling the shift the ‘Busan Freeze,’ named for the South Korea meeting between the leaders that produced a fragile trade detente.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that Brown would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026
Their side had not long come from behind to go 2-1 up against Newcastle United when gallows humour swept across the London Stadium.
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2025
Those marketwomen who had counted their pats of butter after he brushed past their stands, Mrs. Lapham with her prophecies that he would end on the gallows, had not been so far wrong.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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