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Some wordplay to end the day: Take a quick break with Slate’s Pears game, which challenges you to make as many words out of one combination of letters as you can.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Shalit became a popular fixture in American households from the 1970s through to his retirement in 2010, stylistically standing out with his thick-framed spectacles, polkadot bowties and frizzed hair, suffusing his segments with pun-filled wordplay.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
What follows are flights of wordplay, jokes, tragedies and rhymes “meant to be spoken aloud, as a form of conjuring back.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
It is interesting how this euphemism in particular has gained such widespread use, though of course the practice of wordplay is really anything but new.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
Jonathan Swift has always been a favorite, but I can’t get over how clever his wordplay is throughout the novel.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
But the Empress won’t turn away wordplays that use the same word with different meanings.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2017
Still running — deadline Monday night, July 6: Our contest for wordplays on foreign terms.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2015
When in doubt, make tragic wordplays and drench them with alliteration.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2013
Turning to the news media, the psychic said the tabloids would run out of obvious wordplays on Cathleen P. Black’s surname.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2010
Among the happiest of his controlled skids is Fred Willard as Buck Laughlin, a supremely confident, supremely clueless TV commentator filling time with proctologist jokes, making awful wordplays when the Shih Tzu appears.
From Time Magazine Archive
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