punning
- present participle of pun.
Example Sentences
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For many years American Jewish writing seemed to be all about sons—sons launched from Chicago, Brooklyn and the Bronx, sons of overprotective mothers, comics punning on “the son also rises.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Wait a minute, was the New York Times punning with its Wordle on Veteran’s Day?
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2022
The punning, exuberant text results in a genuinely German version, a “Hamilton” eminently, entirely at home in the language.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Jean Clawed, Dolph Lundgren’s Svengeance and Danny Trejo’s Stronghold round out the punning group, whose lair is hidden beneath a record store cleverly called Criminal Records.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022
That’s why the show is loaded with so many “adult” elements, the constant punning and pop culture references like Monsterpiece Theater or the Samuel Beckett parody “Waiting for Elmo.”
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
