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
Lionel Messi didn’t toy with defenders in the MLS Cup final.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2024
Think of the toddler's classic hammer-and-bench toy, with square, circular, triangular and star-shaped wooden pegs that can each only fit in the correspondingly shaped hole in the bench.
From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024
I was only allowed to bring one toy with me.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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