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Recent Examples of zinger
Beshear has also not been afraid to offer zingers against Trump.
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Steve Bittenbender | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 July 2024
Listening to recent pop is like playing record-snob bingo, trying to identify the musical touchstones used to illustrate the singer’s confessional zingers.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
But Reba is her usual sitcom-esque spitfire self: sharp, uptight, on her game, and loaded with zingers.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, also has sharpened his attack and has begun to hurl personal zingers at Trump.
—Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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Steve Bittenbender | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 July 2024
Listening to recent pop is like playing record-snob bingo, trying to identify the musical touchstones used to illustrate the singer’s confessional zingers.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
But Reba is her usual sitcom-esque spitfire self: sharp, uptight, on her game, and loaded with zingers.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, also has sharpened his attack and has begun to hurl personal zingers at Trump.
—Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zinger
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Big as the performance is, Stiller isn’t alone: Writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer also pillages shamelessly from the Sundance playbook of whimsy, giving himself the lion’s share of irony-laden pickup lines and depressive witticisms about the pointlessness of romance.Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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Early Turning Point memes read as though the organization had hired a Popsicle-stick-joke writer to make bland, conservative-minded witticisms.Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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At the retirement home, everybody’s got problems — memory loss, cancer, loneliness — but these darker moments alternate with sight gags, punchlines and snarky wisecracks in a way that somehow feels cohesive.Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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When the perceptive Moon in your playful 5th house goads incisive Mercury in your intimacy zone, a wisecrack about a personal issue may really offend you.Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2024
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According to the Associated Press, Yale University’s list of 2024’s most notable quotations is, of course, ruled by Swift’s quip endorsing failed Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2024
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Charles Barkley’s weight loss was the brunt of Shaquille O’Neal’s latest quip to his colleague.Scott Thompson, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2024
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Most recently, the Kremlin has settled on a strategy that involves legal sallies against international digital companies—including Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter.Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2015
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He was born into a rich family, and his father, the outer-borough real-estate developer Fred Trump, financed his early sallies into Manhattan real estate.John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Zinger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zinger. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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