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Oscar Wilde was famous for his witty wordplay.
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Readers who savor wordplay as much as suspense should look up this clever mystery.
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Ron Charles, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
Critics were quick to slam the ad, arguing that the wordplay was a subtle attempt at endorsing eugenics.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025
The suffering in these songs is almost comical, but the hurt under the wordplay was real.
—Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
The story about Bagel veers through the inevitable health issues that come with owning a 16-year-old cat and lands on a pedantic piece of wordplay about the name of Bagel’s preferred pill-providing supplement, Easypill Giver Cat.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
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Ron Charles, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
Critics were quick to slam the ad, arguing that the wordplay was a subtle attempt at endorsing eugenics.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025
The suffering in these songs is almost comical, but the hurt under the wordplay was real.
—Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
The story about Bagel veers through the inevitable health issues that come with owning a 16-year-old cat and lands on a pedantic piece of wordplay about the name of Bagel’s preferred pill-providing supplement, Easypill Giver Cat.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
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“Wordplay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wordplay. Accessed 2 Jan. 2026.
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wordplay
noun
word·play
ˈwərd-ˌplā 
: wit that is based on the clever use of words
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