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Recent Examples on the Web
This sad, breezy insight, not quite punch line or proverb, is a fitting ending for Riker’s strange little novel of cosmopolitan solipsism—the notion that withdrawing from others can still be a way of caring for them.
—Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
On one hand, the utterance is a punch line, unexpected and sharp, just like the book’s title.
—Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2022
How could someone who lives in a city that doubles as a Fox News punch line — and who was a former board member of the ACLU and campaign contributor to Kamala Harris — lead the GOP?
—Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2023
As a nonbinary person, Smith has been treated as a punch line by right-wing media.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2023
Micucci, Stevens, and co-star Martin Starr are all quite fun, but the joke loses all momentum on its way to a gruesome punch line.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
The Cowboys need a victory to continue to stay on Philadelphia’s tail, to catch New York and to surpass Washington in an NFC East that will no longer serve as the punch line to jokes.
—Dallas News, 25 Sep. 2022
Again, Forte masters the tricky balance between repetition, variation, and punctuation, with cuts to stock-footage explosions serving as the inevitable, and always perfectly timed, punch line.
—Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2022
Special teams coach Cam Achord cannot be in charge of that punch line of a unit anymore.
—Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
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