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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wordplays
Noun
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Short Films The Festival presents short films from around the world, ranging from comedies to dramas, documentaries to thrillers, and everything in between, in ten Shorts Programs.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
18 Sep. 2025 -
The episode was typical of an era in broadcast history where television comedies explored important social issues from multiple perspectives.—
Time,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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But since Baku presents one of F1’s most challenging tests with its tight and twisting corners that punish the smallest of mistakes, the McLaren pair will need to keep their wits about them to bring home the team’s first trophy of the season in what has been such a stellar year for them.—
Yara Elshebiny,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Borrego’s family were at their wits end trying to find him, Fernandez said.—
Ben Wieder,
Miami Herald,
15 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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Attention-grabbing highlights of the first season included Land Shark, commercial parodies like Bass-O-Matic and host Richard Pryor’s word association with Chase.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Sep. 2025
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Last year, in response to some political parodies that used images created by artificial intelligence, including one that pilloried Vice President Kamala Harris, the Legislature passed and Newsom signed two measures to outlaw such tomfoolery.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
5 Sep. 2025
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Propelled by one of guitarist Wes Borland’s hypnotic riffs, crunching beats, old-school record scratches and the group’s signature shouty choruses, the whole thing comes crashing to a close with a pummeling final chorus that finally nods to the country star in the title.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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Christoph Waltz, Renée Zellweger, and Logan Lerman step in as a trio of billionaires, meant to be riffs on the modern mogul.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Wordplays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordplays. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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