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But Badenoch claimed "it was teasing, not calling them Nazis".

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

He added that he was teasing, but then hit the gas and sped away.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2021

Kimmel claimed the boxes were empty, but a reporter pointed out that the full video revealed he simply was teasing staffers about the boxes being empty.

From Fox News • Jun. 22, 2020

Later, the other amateur, the actor Chris O’Donnell, was teasing Rodgers about his mustache, which called to mind Burt Reynolds’s facial hair in the 1970s film “Smokey and the Bandit.”

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2019

Tree-ear could see that she was teasing, but he was too deep in his own embarrassment and disappointment to respond with more than a curt nod.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park