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taunted

verb

past tense of taunt

as in teased

to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults the principal reminded the student athletes that taunting their opponents was not showing good sportsmanship

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Recent Examples of taunted Pfister taunted them as his wife ridiculed them for trying to cover their windows. — Kyung Lah, CNN Money, 25 July 2026 Cooper also testified that members of the attacking group taunted Drakeo during the confrontation. — Dave Brooks, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026 After their win, in which the pair taunted any team to dare to take them down, a new challenger approached. — Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026 Jerry Rice wasn't about to ignore a heckler Thursday, as the NFL Hall of Famer charged into the gallery during the American Century Championship after a fan taunted him at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in South Lake Tahoe. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026 The actor taunted his kids over their expectations of the couples. — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026 In the Chicago area, officials said three men captured a victim and shot him multiple times in the head and allegedly taunted his mother. — Luke Barr, ABC News, 1 July 2026 Tournament favorites France, for example, have so thoroughly taunted and tormented their opponents that anything short of the final would seem an injustice at this point. — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026 The neighbor, who lived across the hall from Valentine, said the suspect routinely taunted her from inside her apartment, uttering her insults through the microphone of a doorbell camera. — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 3 June 2026

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De Zerbi teased that system in front of a small crowd at the Allianz Stadium during an open session the night before.

— Elias Burke, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
Which is teased in a post-credits scene that plays out almost exactly like the post-credits scene from the first Amazing Spider-Man.

— Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Aug. 2026

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Golf's media establishment mocked defectors as sellouts and eagerly counted down the days until LIV's collapse.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
In the early 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty wrote stories denying the famine that Joseph Stalin’s forced-collectivization policies were causing in Ukraine and mocked journalists who reported the truth.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026

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