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verb

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Recent Examples of josh
Verb
See which companies are just joshing on social media — and which one has a real deal for you! Brendan Le, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025 The family joshing and loving is great fun here; both Liss and Montana are terrific, live-wire young performers, thanks surely in part to Alex Mallory’s direction, and Rifai has given them a banquet of vibrant lines. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025 Hudson’s accordion seems to come strolling in from a sidewalk serenade to meet Helm’s amused, exasperated vocal, joshing him along with countermelodies, trills and wheezily encouraging chords. Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 Elwood experiences some of the usual rigors of prison and reform school: the bullying, the joshing around, the discipline, the abuse. K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024 Bale, speaking in a bland, hollow voice that has the slightest hint of frat-boy joshing, delivers a piece of polished, satiric archness that goes well beyond the obvious allegorical gag (capitalism = murder) into ... what, exactly? Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024 The movie’s best moments are the ones in which Mary and Paul camp out in front of the TV, drinking whiskey and joshing each other well into the wee hours. Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023 For over four decades, since taking over from Chuck Woolery, Sajak has been at that spot, joshing with Vanna White, heaving the wheel on final spins, wincing at Bankrupts and tethering exuberant winners. James Poniewozik, New York Times, 13 June 2023 Ripa—expertly self-deprecatory, humble in the face of escalating absurdities—joshed that their attendance was a form of punishment, and instead courted the home viewer’s attention. Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for josh
Noun
  • Dave Chappelle roasted Donald Trump for taking over as chairman of the Kennedy Center—weeks after a past joke about the president went newly viral on social media.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • Joy Behar landed in hot water when a joke about a decades-old scandal fell flat.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Verb
  • Brinkley laughed, then realized Joel wasn’t kidding.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2025
  • All kidding aside, McQuillan has been impressed by Fernandez this season.
    Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Jillian Bell's raunchy directorial debut is supplying the laughs this summer.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Fans can also look forward to performances by the iconic Silver Spurs Quadrille, the adorable antics of kids competing in Mutton Bustin’, and plenty of laughs courtesy of the ever-entertaining rodeo clowns.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In the trailer for Buzz, which Deadline can exclusively share, Lithgow teases what listeners can expect.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Despite the riveting plot, the author teases to PEOPLE that her main character is going to be the aspect of the novel that readers aren’t likely to forget.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The most comprehensive sally, of course, is the administration’s drastic and abrupt cut in funding by the National Institutes of Health.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Most recently, the Kremlin has settled on a strategy that involves legal sallies against international digital companies—including Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
    Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2015
Noun
  • Zookeepers welcomed a new yak and now the baby and mama are bonding, Alaska officials said.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The rule’s intention was to not only preserve nature and reduce helicopter traffic in the region, but to bolster the fading cultural practice and industry of yak herding.
    Jake Stern, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2024

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“Josh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/josh. Accessed 9 May. 2025.

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