bon mot
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bons mots
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As France faces a possible borrowing crisis and U.S. stocks shrug off a quarter-century high in bond yields, a Frenchman’s bon mot helps explain why: exorbitant privilege.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
And with a bon mot, it’s very few mots, you know?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
Economists would point to the folly of a course of action, and he would pull out a bon mot or caricature them as “the doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
I’ve thought about that bon mot a lot during this movie season, where so many stars seem to be swinging for the fences.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
He jotted down this bon mot with his pencil nub.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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