taunting
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For the Chargers, that singsong, taunting “Raiii-derrrs” chant will surely haunt their dreams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Earlier in the week, Carney criticized taunting of Canada by U.S. officials, and said it was not constructive toward resolving outstanding trade issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Paul has a history of taunting UFC president White, and the MVP-promoted Rousey v Carano event was positioned as a "takeover" of MMA by boxer Paul.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Sean Duffy is even taunting Pete Buttigieg about it, in a bout of dreaded intra–transportation secretary violence.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
Then I imagine those taunting smiles fading away as a pack of scowling hybrids show up to help me.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
His tauntings washed over Kingshaw, they sounded babyish, he didn't care at all what Hooper said.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
Where, then, will be your tauntings and your vauntings, your boastings and your braggings?
From The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding
Stay thy chattering chin, And reel the tauntings of thy vain tongue in, Nor tempt me further with thy vaporish boast That I am helpless to combat thee!
From Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems by James Whitcomb Riley
Gerda rose from the foam where she had been playing serenely impervious to the tauntings of Kay.
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
At many bends of the Sweetwater they paused and made sorties; but the savages fell back, later to close in, sometimes under cover so near that their tauntings could be heard.
From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
