bon mot
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And with a bon mot, it’s very few mots, you know?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025
I have a bon mot I frequently employ: cautiously poss-imistic.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2023
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
Keynes’s bon mot has a sting in its tail: We can afford anything we can actually do.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021
“Add the occasional bon mot and I’m in.”
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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