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Recent Examples of tongue-in-cheek
While this advice does sound a bit tongue-in-cheek, there’s some solid logic that’s worth considering.
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Jennifer Beck Goldblatt, Architectural Digest, 9 Jan. 2025
One financial executive recently summarized the outsized weight of AI on the economy in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2025
For example, this one crosses Barron Trump, the President-elect’s youngest son, with the Dune movie series:
While this one takes a tongue-in-cheek view of how Americans would act in Greenland:
The internet’s reaction to Trump wanting to buy Greenland goes further than simple jokes though.
—Callum Booth, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Most recently, The Substance, widely touted as a tongue-in-cheek feminist narrative mocking the debilitating limits of Hollywood beauty culture, kills off its heroine (Demi Moore) in the most gruesome, punishing way.
—Valerie Monroe, Allure, 25 Dec. 2024
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Jennifer Beck Goldblatt, Architectural Digest, 9 Jan. 2025
One financial executive recently summarized the outsized weight of AI on the economy in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2025
For example, this one crosses Barron Trump, the President-elect’s youngest son, with the Dune movie series:
While this one takes a tongue-in-cheek view of how Americans would act in Greenland:
The internet’s reaction to Trump wanting to buy Greenland goes further than simple jokes though.
—Callum Booth, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Most recently, The Substance, widely touted as a tongue-in-cheek feminist narrative mocking the debilitating limits of Hollywood beauty culture, kills off its heroine (Demi Moore) in the most gruesome, punishing way.
—Valerie Monroe, Allure, 25 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for tongue-in-cheek
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tongue-in-cheek
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The fact that she was sent home first (and met her elimination with a characteristically flippant and dismissive attitude).—
EW.com,
EW.com,
4 Dec. 2024
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The five words that make up the album title aren't random or flippant.—
Melonee Hurt,
The Tennessean,
16 May 2024
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Trump has been pushing an imperialist vision that includes U.S. acquisition of Greenland, Panama, and — on a more facetious note — Canada.—
Andrew Solender,
Axios,
7 Jan. 2025
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That quip no longer seems so facetious as a son of exiles who fled their homeland prepares to become America’s top diplomat.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN,
8 Dec. 2024
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That seems cruelly ironic after Los Angeles organizers sold the Games as a no-build event.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2025
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How ironic that our new state constitutional amendment, as well as current law before the amendment, would allow any woman or doctor to snuff out this life under the guise of reproductive freedom.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
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Perhaps Cronin’s biggest ally in his bid to keep coaching is his wry sense of humor.—
Ben Bolch,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Dec. 2024
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From time to time over the years, polls and pollsters have piqued the wit and wry humor of many cartoonists.—
W. Joseph Campbell,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2024
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And the video was a next-gen, next level piece of moviemaking, a cinema verité of the raping of the American farm, a vast, cynical travesty played out in broad daylight in Reagan’s twisted America.—
SPIN Editors,
SPIN,
21 Jan. 2025
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Yet, there is an equally compelling reality: the risks Israel now faces by entering a deal with a cynical terrorist group that has shown time and again its commitment to destruction, and not to peace.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, Southern California's climate continues to ping-pong between unseasonably wet conditions, which grow vegetation and unseasonably dry conditions which dry all that out into fire fuel.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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According to one study, even in the extremely dry Martian atmosphere, the climatic conditions inside the volcanoes' craters are such that frost can form even though it's never been found elsewhere on Mars – even at the poles.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
18 Jan. 2025
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As the comical and poignant episodes in the life of Michael Scott show, while good intentions are undoubtedly important, effective leadership requires adaptability, self-awareness and a focus on empowering others.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Typhoid, transient, pregnant, poignant, glowing, galloping, parasite.—
John McPhee,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Tongue-in-cheek.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tongue-in-cheek. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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