troll
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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
"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
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
“I say again, they are sending in a troll to secure your release.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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You must be prepared to stridently defend it to the trolls.
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
While the upstairs business has brought in tens of thousands of new customers, it has also attracted trolls trying to shut JapanLA down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Most people avoid The Woods because of the trolls and ogres.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Alongside the support, Dipke and the campaign were fiercely trolled by government supporters.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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
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
We trolled up the lake beyond Stresa and then down not far from shore.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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A bunch of it is trolling from people who’ll never watch the WNBA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
"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
Kabuo remembered trolling for cutthroat with Carl— they were twelve years old, long before the war—in a borrowed, weathered rowboat.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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