tickle
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But Sora also cost massive compute run time, with OpenAI spending a reported $15 million a day to tickle a nonpaying public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
A whiff of lemongrass and wet soil tickle the nose in Palli Fleischer Lyberth's vertical farm in Sisimiut, the second-largest town in the Danish autonomous territory.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
Or that night we stumbled onto a giant controlled burn and saw the flames reach up and tickle the moon and recognized the gnawing feeling that fire is something we can only feign to control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026
By that point, Atkinson had forced Travis Head to chop on, Tongue was beneficiary of a leg-side tickle by Jake Weatherald and the same bowler found the edge of Marnus Labuschagne.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
When we were little, Papa would tickle us to wake us up.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
Not unlike, say, a Whit Stillman movie or an episode of “Frasier,” it tickles the literary parts of the brain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Yorgos Lanthimos’ sci-fi black comedy tickles the audience to wonder if Emma Stone’s pharmaceutical CEO could really be an alien.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
Dr Chris van Tulleken says as an infection scientist he sees nature as a positively challenging environment that "tickles your immune system".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
Your partner tickles your foot — you might reflexively withdraw the foot without waking up and becoming conscious, right?
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024
He said later, “The success of this my first literary child always tickles my vanity more than that of any of my other books.”
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
She agreed, tickled to reprise her role again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
"It just really tickled me - it's the contradiction," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
But I also adored that Frémaux was so clearly tickled to valorize an audience-thrilling blockbuster, because Cannes can do that, too.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
We were tickled, then, to see another iteration of our favorite story appear in Politico amid Becerra’s rise: an anonymity-heavy piece quoting the politician’s former administration colleagues calling him a loser.
From Slate ● May 9, 2026
This idea tickled Jo’s fancy and put her in good spirits, but Meg didn’t brighten, for her burden, consisting of four spoiled children, seemed heavier than ever.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
“In my dream, you kept getting closer to me, and then you started tickling me,” Linda tells him during a session, early in the film.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025
He’s about 1 year old and he’s on the couch with my grandma, and my grandma was making fun of him, maybe tickling him or something, I don’t remember exactly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
Alife described lying down on the sidecar as "tummy tickling due to the vibrations" and said it felt like he was "off the ground gliding".
From BBC ● May 26, 2024
“Training Season,” her demand for a partner who already knows “how to love me right,” has tickling guitar syncopations and girl-group harmonies popping out of nowhere.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
Ess shouted with joy as she rode in Jinny’s lap down the smooth stone, the wind rushing past them, her hair tickling Jinny’s nose.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
