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Within seconds the pair are bantering and bickering as though they’ve never been apart.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2017

But the issue the two famous actors are bantering about is very real: restoring the Colorado River.

From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2014

"They are bantering and joking with us," reports a delighted British negotiator.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whilst the townsfolk of Titipu are bantering Nanki-Poo on the prospect of marriage and death, their revelry is interrupted by the arrival of the lady who was the cause of Nanki-Poo's wandering.

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.

"You are bantering me, Mr. Powell," says Mother.

From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Manning, Anne