troll
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Courtney Love accused Charli of being a troll.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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
Also present is Johnathan Lee Riches, a veteran troll and convicted scammer, who—after finishing a prison term for wire fraud—has successfully rebranded as an investigative journalist.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
He’d have bought them a honeymoon right then, but he knew the troll would say it was illegal.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
In true “defend forward” spirit, it can also help cut off foreign trolls and state-backed hackers from what’s needed to run an influence operation, like internet access, servers and accounts.
From Salon ● May 21, 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
Why not pretend to dine in a medieval castle in Miracle Mile or look for trolls on a fern-filled hike in Griffith Park?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
Takahashi says legal action has "a deterrent effect" on online trolls, many of whom he says are in their teens or early 20s.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
I looked down at the sludge and then back up at the trolls.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
You famously trolled an audience of conservatives at a concert held during the Republican National Convention in 2016.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
“They trolled some pretty big names in our popular culture and in the business world,” Krim said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
The DHS official social media account then trolled Bryan with a video dehumanizing migrants set to his song “Revival.”
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2025
Influencer Carly Rowena also found herself being trolled on the platform after her young son was taken to hospital.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
The string of cars trolled up Water Street through a bright spring day.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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
South Africans on social media were robust in their response to the trolling.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Other analysts say the AI messaging could seek to rally his support base and campaign through trolling.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
The problem, cybersecurity researchers say, is that your trolling may be giving the scammer exactly what they want.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The truck was spattered with mud, like he’d been trolling the swamps looking for me.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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