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as in cartoons
a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story
reading the Sunday funnies is part of my weekend ritual
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as in jokes
something said or done to cause laughter
let's can the funnies—we've got serious work to do here
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Noun
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Saturday morning cartoons were fortified with frozen orange juice concentrate that came in a tube and required thawing the night before.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
2 Feb. 2026 -
Players choose a card, which offers a category like pizza toppings or cartoons, and take turns shouting out a word that fits the category and corresponds to a letter on the board that hasn’t already been used.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Williams plays his colleague Gaby, best friend to his dead wife and a ball of passion and dirty jokes.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
26 Jan. 2026
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That’s a compliment, of course, as these are very, very funny jokes.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Use Sticky Traps Sheets or strips of sticky paper hung around your plants will trap any insects that come to visit.—
Jon VanZile,
The Spruce,
30 Jan. 2026
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Employees did not demonstrate knowledge of location or use of sanitizer test strips.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
January 30,
Sacbee.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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There were a couple of unexpected wipeouts, including one by David Pastrnak, that elicited laughs from teammates.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
31 Jan. 2026
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The movie’s biggest laughs come from Kevin’s hijinks, which involve setting up complex booby traps to fend off a pair of burglars targeting his family’s home.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Funnies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funnies. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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