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- the joke provoked a sudden chortle from a bystander
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- audiences might chortle gently during the movie's amusing bits, but there are few knee-slappers
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“Chortle.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chortle. Accessed 24 January 2020.
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