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Conlon has quipped that the opera could just as easily have been called “Iago,” given just how acutely Verdi renders evil.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023

More than once, Bonds has quipped to Giants executives that he built AT&T Park by making the Giants relevant enough in the 1990s to make the investment worthwhile.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2022

Wilmers likes to say she cooked dinner for him for 30 years, and Sam has quipped that Bennett never once did the washing up.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2019

Hollinghurst has quipped that he was “an architect from the age of six or so … I designed country houses when I went away to boarding school”.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2017

“He’s had to be quick,” Jaimito has quipped.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez