as in jokes
to make jokes
the teacher bantered pleasantly, albeit a bit awkwardly, with the students at the school dance
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Kandi jokes that the same can’t be said for her and Joyce.—
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My wife jokes about the cat having foiled our murder plot yet again.—
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“Banters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banters. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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