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a collection of famous witticisms
a drama critic who is best remembered for his biting witticisms
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It’s often noted that TikTok played a major role in the online shift from text to video, changing the shape of memes, as the snappy, often-anonymous witticisms of Twitter were steadily replaced by intimate close-ups of TikTokers monologuing in their bedrooms.
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Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
That is kind of a tongue-in-cheek witticism amongst those who do this for a living.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Big as the performance is, Stiller isn’t alone: Writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer also pillages shamelessly from the Sundance playbook of whimsy, giving himself the lion’s share of irony-laden pickup lines and depressive witticisms about the pointlessness of romance.
—Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
Early Turning Point memes read as though the organization had hired a Popsicle-stick-joke writer to make bland, conservative-minded witticisms.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
That is kind of a tongue-in-cheek witticism amongst those who do this for a living.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Big as the performance is, Stiller isn’t alone: Writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer also pillages shamelessly from the Sundance playbook of whimsy, giving himself the lion’s share of irony-laden pickup lines and depressive witticisms about the pointlessness of romance.
—Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
Early Turning Point memes read as though the organization had hired a Popsicle-stick-joke writer to make bland, conservative-minded witticisms.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Witticism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/witticism. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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witticism
noun
wit·ti·cism
ˈwit-ə-ˌsiz-əm 
: a witty saying
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