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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wordplays
Noun
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As an elementary school kid raised in the Bronx, Ducard discovered his love for creating documentaries, dramas, and comedies with his VHS video camera.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025 -
Sandler, post-Saturday Night Live, became a bona fide movie star through goofy but beloved film comedies such as 1995’s Billy Madison, 1996’s Happy Gilmore and 1998’s The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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With tensions rising, the film transforms into an unsettling black comedy as the colleagues descend into a battle of wills and wits.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Oct. 2025
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And as the cast — including Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield who play the accuser and the accused, respectively — engage in an unflinching battle of wits, navigating one knotty maneuver after another, what stands out is their clothes, which are as sharp as the dialogue.—
Kati Chitrakorn,
CNN Money,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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There are alignments of anemia with some of the early modern symptoms of green sickness—though very few people today are likely to think anemia is caused by a blockage of bodily humors curable by intercourse.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
27 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
Noun
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The moment — delivered by Steinfeld’s character Mary on a humid New Orleans train platform — was clipped, memed and replayed across TikTok, igniting think pieces and parodies alike.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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Free speech covers the jokes, the satire, the parodies—even the dumb, crass, or offensive ones.—
Lizz Winstead,
Time,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And don’t forget to book a table at the bijou Il Piccolo restaurant, comprising just nine tables to offer—in the spirit of Violino d’Oro more broadly—subtle, meticulously executed riffs on classic Venetian fare and the flavors of the lagoon.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
13 Oct. 2025
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With their wireless guitars, Bobby Guerrero, also known as El Gallo, and Zapata weaved through the crowd playing psychedelic guitar riffs.—
Ivan Kashinsky,
NPR,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Wordplays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordplays. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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