toy with

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For almost as long, she’s also made experimental folk and electronic records that toy with avant-garde noise and quietly poignant songwriting.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

For her Netflix version, Smith Metzler tweaks the plot to toy with our unconscious ideas of upper-class power dynamics.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

She wore a grey jogging top and bottoms, and held the stuffed toy with both hands during the hearing.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2025

Lionel Messi didn’t toy with defenders in the MLS Cup final.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2024

I toy with shouting some tidbit more—some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly fuliginous riddling hex—but my heart’s not in it.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner