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troll

[trohl] / troʊl /


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After one troll asked him, “Are you a boy or a girl?” he volleyed back: “My dad is a boy and my mom is a girl. So I’m mixed xx.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

Some judges call it a copyright troll that makes millions by threatening to out those who download its films.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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

“We're sharing this money. We're the only ones who know the truth except for Laura Friendly and the troll and her lawyer goons. We're in this together. We have to count on each other.”

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

Who has an army of trolls who fill up her mentions every day with invective.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Jay Slater's mum 'accused of his murder by trolls'

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Now, they are the trolls of global commerce.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Segura continued that he’s not the type of guy who’s an “open book” with his personal life, and that he understands the public’s interest in their divorce, whether they are trolls or heartbroken fans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

If Red could meet real trolls, she’d see that they were much nicer than Frederick and Bruno—and less ugly besides.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

True to his provocative reputation, he recently trolled an OpenAI executive on social media after she accidentally plugged Meta’s new app in a television appearance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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

Rapper 50 Cent — who has trolled Combs on social media since disturbing allegations against the Bad Boy Records founder first surfaced in late 2023 — offered a less formal take on the verdict.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025

Similarly, Bloom trolled the halls of the dorm floor every morning looking for anything out of place.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

"I never faced official restrictions on my cartoons during the previous governments, though there would be some trolling occasionally," he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

I remember when the news first broke about that, someone said, “Well, I wonder if that’s Alex kind of trolling Musk back.”

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

As crowded as the deck was, ours was missing the one bit of fishing kit it needed most: the optional Minn Kota trolling motor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

“Florio can attack me all he wants. He’s trolling, which he does sometimes,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

At that moment, John Masters and Tomás were trolling separate parts of Saint Petersburg.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith


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