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Noun
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When the vehicle stopped to turn onto the main road, her mirth vanished.—
Nnedi Okorafor,
WIRED,
14 Jan. 2025 -
Aunt Harry dug her hard brown fingers into Mrs. Klein’s chubby pink wrists and shook her face with a strange mirth, as though the Holy Ghost had touched her.—
Henry Van Dyke,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2024
Noun
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Roz Chast on George Booth In Booth’s cartoons of men and women, dogs and bathtubs, the hilarity is in the details.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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This breakout performance shatters stereotype in a complex embodiment of hilarity and heartbreak while providing a crisp look at the modern world’s obsession with money, class and power – and the elusive nature of happily ever after.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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That glee in the face of pain may come back to haunt Trump.—
Maureen Dowd,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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Her glee is deeper than that, and on this night, it was shared by scores of school faculty, administrators, students and alums, some in their 80s, who squeezed into crammed quarters for an up-close peek of the now merging with the future.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacramento Bee,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Puerility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puerility. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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