as in joked
to make jokes
the teacher bantered pleasantly, albeit a bit awkwardly, with the students at the school dance
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Recent Examples of bantered
Jean insisted on driving, and the other two bantered the whole way.
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David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bantered
joked
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Most of the time, though, as joked by Kang and Kodos themselves, they are written into the show as background cameos or to simply narrate their observations from their spaceship, laughing at us, maniacally.—
Grace Dean,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Dreyer joked at the end of her post.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Bantered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bantered. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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