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While circus performers draw laughter and applause for their efforts, punsters sometimes draw an obligatory groan for theirs.—San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Mar. 2023 The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter.—
Dominic Green,
WSJ,
19 Nov. 2021 Feliciano, who was born blind, is seventy-five, diminutive, and a punster.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2020 Beyond a committed art public, of course, Dada punster Duchamp’s name wouldn’t ring many bells.—Los Angeles Times,
7 Dec. 2020 Join plantsman and punster Warren Roberts for a Valentine’s Day lunchtime stroll through the Arboretum gardens, in search of winter blooms (and maybe romance).—
Debbie Arrington,
sacbee,
9 Feb. 2018 The most outrageous punster is Robert A. George of the Daily News.—
Danielle Stein Chizzik,
Town & Country,
21 Apr. 2016