as in comedies
humorous entertainment
an actor whose roles range from slapstick to serious drama
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Advertisement Advertisement A recent spate of darkly glittering comedies give us the opportunity to do just that.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025 -
Keep scrolling for the best comedies to stream on Netflix right now.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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And there’s a kinship between modern medicine’s aim to ascribe psychiatric disorders to a handful of chemicals in our brains and the medical catchall of the four-humors framework of centuries past.—
Harper’s Magazine,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Slapsticks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slapsticks. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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