taunt
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So was the incident really a warning or a taunt to the local community from hare coursers?
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The residents cheer and taunt and follow from a safe distance.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
Then, Anthropic unveiled Super Bowl ads that taunt rival OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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
He played with the guys, and when they came to taunt Dorothy, he did not feel as bad as he had before.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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
He turned away after silencing the taunts, cupping his ear to The Kop, who were stunned into silence after his sixth Premier League goal versus Liverpool.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 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
Photographers captured the giant “burn book” she consulted through the hearing, which contained pages of reminders of these lame taunts.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025
Contain your aggression to staring into its eyes and hurling toots and taunts.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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
There he had sidled up to Merrill’s chief financial officer, Jeff Edwards, the same Jeff Edwards Eisman had taunted, some months earlier, about Merrill Lynch’s risk models.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Never mind their dozens of targeted social media posts and years of taunting.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Sean Duffy is even taunting Pete Buttigieg about it, in a bout of dreaded intra–transportation secretary violence.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
Crew chief Marc Davis said in a pool report that both players were “assessed technical fouls for their continual taunting of one another.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026
And that unopened brick of air-dry clay that’s taunting you?
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026
At night, dreams of the empty space began taunting him.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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