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To what metrics of success will it be held?
Also, zingers and phonk won't intimidate world leaders.
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Colin Demarest, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
Here are some zingers that Schreiber, and the Hard Knocks producers, are free to lift.
—Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
Fittingly, the humor bobs and weaves, setting up punchlines only to pivot to a zinger.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
And, because this is The Diplomat, the show somehow also manages to work a few zingers into the razor-sharp dialogue.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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Colin Demarest, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
Here are some zingers that Schreiber, and the Hard Knocks producers, are free to lift.
—Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
Fittingly, the humor bobs and weaves, setting up punchlines only to pivot to a zinger.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
And, because this is The Diplomat, the show somehow also manages to work a few zingers into the razor-sharp dialogue.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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That is kind of a tongue-in-cheek witticism amongst those who do this for a living.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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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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And yes, that dollar figure is the 77th million wisecrack over Jimbo Fisher’s buyout.David Whitley, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
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Chock-full of laugh-out-loud quips and wisecracks, Susan Sarandon, Christine Baranski and Cheryl Hines also join in on the fun in the boisterous 2017 sequel to Bad Moms (2016).Lydia Price, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
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Comments ranged from playful quips to outright laughter.Melissa Fleur Afshar, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Whatever cranky conservative quip Allen fires off is sanded down by the balance Dennings brings to the breakfast table.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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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 21 Jan. 2025.
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