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It frames the way I look at the food here—how Catalan chefs toy with tradition, nudging it just far enough to feel fresh but never so far that it becomes unrecognizable.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2025

After watching his team-mates toy with their opponents for a while, he received a pass on the edge of the Chinese box and rammed home Japan's seventh goal.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025

“I’m always trying to toy with that idea of her brain works too fast for her mouth,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

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

She looked like a carved whirligig toy with six flying arms and a hopping head.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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