Recent Examples on the WebIn fact, the writers and artists have a WhatsApp group dedicated to coming up with English-language alternatives to any wordplay in the original French scripts.—Jamie Lang, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024 Some of the film’s winking references are more esoteric than others, and a lot of wordplay and in-jokes are potentially lost on a non-Japanese audience: some of them are, according to the subtitles on my copy, basically untranslatable.—Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024 This wordplay came naturally to my mother, a kind of jazz.—Steve Silberman, Scientific American, 12 July 2023 Carpenter is not afraid of a gimmick, a little wordplay, or even some wink-y pandering to the audience.—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for wordplay
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