troll
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"People know it's me doing it, while other people do it on troll accounts. No matter what is invented, people are going to use things for the wrong reasons."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The first is that the wedding itself, scattered with Easter eggs like a mirror ball and a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, was engineered expressly to troll the media.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
It may sound fun to troll those text scammers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
The existence of 764 is the product of an era of disenchantment where everyone is a troll looking for clicks.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
The pneumatic doors were slightly askew where the troll had barged through, but otherwise everything seemed operational.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
The company tried to report and block the trolls, but they kept popping up with new profiles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
One can, on the internet, even encounter trolls akin to the golem versions of real people that we see in the film.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
Katseye, who share a label with Le Sserafim, say the senior band helped when they encountered their own internet trolls.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Recent models of the artificial-intelligence chatbot have been bringing up the creatures in conversations with users seemingly out of the blue, as well as gremlins, trolls and ogres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
And the best part is, the comments section of the article isn’t filled with trolls calling the people in the article awful names.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
"Serious political messaging, packaged as reels, can still be trolled."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
For two years, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson oversaw work on a documentary about a hip-hop rival he has personally trolled on the internet for even longer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
The DHS official social media account then trolled Bryan with a video dehumanizing migrants set to his song “Revival.”
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2025
Because, you guys don’t see the hate that a lot of us see online, especially female comedians, all we get is trolled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025
Ted rolled down his window and trolled along beside me.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
Akhter has faced online trolling since the video took off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
They square the circle of Swift masterminding a full-scale trolling of media and fans while simultaneously hosting a cotton-candy celebrity circus where an awkward wallflower finally, triumphantly blooms.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Nine days after the Negra Francisca sank, another Ecuadorean fishing boat was trolling the fertile fishing grounds off the Galapagos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Other analysts say the AI messaging could seek to rally his support base and campaign through trolling.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
Each day Otto hired the Estrellita, a deep-sea-fishing craft, and the four friends went trolling along the coast.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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