taunt
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The residents cheer and taunt and follow from a safe distance.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
Some would openly taunt ICE officers by waving through the window or passing notes under the door.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Guadagnino makes Hank look so shady that it feels like a taunt: We’re dumb if we trust Hank and doubly dumb if he’s innocent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Remember the collective removal of headwear to taunt the cap-less Patrick Cantlay.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
The rotating projection of the earth disappeared, but the button remained, as either a taunt or a promise.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
One of the most famous episodes in Homer’s poem finds Odysseus and his men facing the Cyclops Polyphemus in his cave, where their struggle becomes a battle of wits: lies, taunts, a drunken ruse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The first round, he toys with Rocky—stinging jabs, taunts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
“Melania” taunts the viewer and takes glee in the assumption that they can’t do anything about it.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026
Thomas Frank said the "boring Tottenham" taunts from his own club's fans were understandable after they were held to a dour 0-0 draw by Brentford on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026
There were Slytherin taunts to be endured next day, not to mention much anger from fellow Gryffindors, who were most unhappy that their Captain had got himself banned from the final match of the season.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
That’s why Ham is swift to insist he’s being taunted, even when he’s not.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
The woman alleged that Jackson repeatedly refused to delete the video and then taunted her with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
The few protesters taunted the agents, who mostly amused themselves.
From Slate ● May 29, 2026
In the years that followed, people stared at him on the streets or taunted him.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
"Carla, you're such a priss," Sandi taunted her.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Sean Duffy is even taunting Pete Buttigieg about it, in a bout of dreaded intra–transportation secretary violence.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
But the phantoms of the past remain, haunting our dreams and taunting us with the comfort of imagined reconciliation, until we wake up and it slips away.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
Doncic and the Lakers appealed the call after he was given a technical for taunting against Orlando Magic forward Goga Bitadze in Saturday’s Lakers win.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026
And that unopened brick of air-dry clay that’s taunting you?
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026
Ugwu was watching the children running around the breadfruit tree, taunting and shouting, when Nnesinachi arrived with a baby on her hip and a sparkle in her eyes.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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