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noun

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Recent Examples of laugh
Verb
Our days starting with coffee in the makeup trailer, laughing and joking, right through to the very last day of filming. Giana Levy, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025 While the mistake might have rattled another couple, Mallory—and the rest of the family⁠—couldn’t stop laughing. Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
But instead, teammate Nick Cousins was poking a little fun at Pinto’s contract situation and drew some laughs, including from Pinto himself. Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 The two little girls on the television laugh with me. Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for laugh
Recent Examples of Synonyms for laugh
Verb
  • The teaser video that followed showed a device straight out of a sci-fi film, something between Wall-E and BB-8, with a camera that giggles and swivels on command.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
  • At one point, Gracie Abrams giggles with Swift behind the scenes, while Carpenter appears in a t-shirt and sits on a couch as the trek’s headliner practices guitar.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Everyone was smiling, hooting and hollering.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The post included a series of pictures of D’Angelo in the studio, as well as a snap of the two musicians in which D is giving one of his classic pensive, knowing looks and Hill is smiling as the pair lean their heads together.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bush are flops that remain well worth a chuckle.
    Will Leitch, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • LaKeith Stanfield is an easy standout as Parker’s best friend Grofield, a passionate actor who moonlights as a criminal to fund his dead-end theater company — some of the movie’s heartiest chuckles come from the joy Grofield takes in getting to ham things up as part of the heist.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Though married to Betty Jo (Jeanne Tripplehorn, a hoot in femme-fatale mode), Dale was rumored to be gay.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Milvia Marigliano is a hoot as Coco Vulori, an old dear friend with some very loud opinions to express, and maybe the key to helping DeSantis solve his wife’s onetime unfaithfulness.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a joke in here somewhere.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Some Sora users depicted King making crude jokes and other inappropriate content.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There are up to 20,000 rabid people raining down their emotions from all angles, a dozen sticks clattering, two dozen skates carving, all those burly bodies bumping into each other and banging into the boards, plus an endless stream of screaming and grunting and cursing.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The professional chef, who had never smelled her own feet before, screamed as Barrymore picked up her foot and gave it a sniff.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Trousers that sneer down their noses (legs?) at anyone who prefers Charli XCX to Chaucer.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The earnestness and sincerity that characterized so much music from the late ’90s were overtaken by the sneering rage of nu metal.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The venue’s intimacy, coupled with a more informal, speakeasy vibe, permeated an award ceremony that was notable for its moments of laughter and easy congeniality.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Hold on to the laughter, hold on to the sparkle, hold on to that spark deep inside that refuses to go out.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Laugh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laugh. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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