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You could watch it on YouTube and laugh straight through, as when someone is tickling you and won’t stop.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2016

With each rig sporting two parachute jigs, there is room for experimenting with different combinations of color and weight to find what is tickling the striper's fancy on a particular day.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘You is tickling me a bit,’ the BFG said.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

In that other clump of trees, where an ayah is tickling a white baby into laughter, was the pavilion of the Nana himself, who inherited the Mahratta preference for canvas over bricks and mortar.

From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Forbes, Archibald

This same cherub appears in other places, once blowing a horn in another's ear; and again he is tickling a sleeping brother's foot with a straw.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Hubbard, Elbert