wordplay
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It seems at first too clever for the grim subject matter, riffing on wordplay around “jeans” and “genes,” like the controversial American Eagle advertisements starring Sydney Sweeney from the past year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026
He spun wordplay, philosophical debates and scientific principles into popular theatrical entertainment, landing a string of West End and Broadway hits, and won a best-screenplay Oscar for the smash Hollywood film “Shakespeare in Love.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
Like a particularly manic solver, he attacks the subject in an across-and-down fashion, here contemplating the impact of AI on the game, there considering what role crossword-style wordplay had on Modernist writers like T.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
Does Ellie have any sort of sense of wordplay?
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
But that day in Alice Manfred’s house, as he listened to and returned their banter, something in the wordplay took on weight.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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