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The façade, designed by Redding’s sister, May Redding, is a riot of textures, details, and in-jokes in the same Thai-meets-rococo style that makes Thai Diner feel so immersive and fun.
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Reservation Dogs was one of television’s rare masterpieces, woven from a lifetime’s worth of observations and obsessions, existential struggles and in-jokes, and shot through with a sparkling thread of spirituality.
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
The name of the tool is a bit of a physicist’s in-joke.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 17 Sep. 2025
Schattenfroh is extremely long and prodigiously learned, with scenes—and even sentences—that veer from one century to another, and with a taste for literary and art historical in-jokes that might try the patience of even the most erudite reader.
—Book Marks
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Reservation Dogs was one of television’s rare masterpieces, woven from a lifetime’s worth of observations and obsessions, existential struggles and in-jokes, and shot through with a sparkling thread of spirituality.
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
The name of the tool is a bit of a physicist’s in-joke.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 17 Sep. 2025
Schattenfroh is extremely long and prodigiously learned, with scenes—and even sentences—that veer from one century to another, and with a taste for literary and art historical in-jokes that might try the patience of even the most erudite reader.
—Book Marks
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for in-joke
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“In-joke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-joke. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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