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

"They also took from us perfumes, and make-up, as well as phones and power banks. Any toy with a remote-control was taken."

From BBC • Feb. 3, 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

For the title track, which Booth wrote fresh from the demise of a five-year relationship, she wanted to toy with the expectations established by such a miserable framing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 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