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• Well, look who has a chance to get the last laugh now, Dallas Cowboys?!
  — Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2024
• Despite the attack on women, Black women and academic freedom, Gay may still get the last laugh.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2024
• In the long run, though, Texas may have the last laugh.
  — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
• But the creators of the comic book would have the last laugh.
  — George Gene Gustines, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022
• Despite that, Wilson may have been the one to get the last laugh.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
• Although Taylor left the yard on Hodges’ pitch, the latter would get the last laugh on the final at-bat of the game.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 18 May 2022
• That is perhaps more the case for the Ducks, which is why this breakup is happening, but the Beavers might just get the last laugh this year.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• But, as Dangle’s wife reminds her petty husband, the artist may have the last laugh.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Yet industry pundits will have the last laugh when the Critics Choice Assn.
  — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 3 Jan. 2022
• Neighborhood real estate is on the rise and FanPlex may have the last laugh yet.
  — Pete Corson, ajc, 16 May 2016
• Nikola Tesla might have won the war but Mr. Edison may still have the last laugh thanks to digital.
  — Mike Hughes, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Employees may have the last laugh on hybrid work after all.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 17 July 2023
• But Axelrod still managed to have the last laugh, a bitter-sweet victory for Lewis’s fans.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 4 Oct. 2021
• And that was a pro, adored by millions who appreciated comic skill and the ability to get the last laugh.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022
• Teachers can get the last laugh before returning to the classroom this fall when the Bored Teachers Comedy Tour comes to town.
  — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2022
• Haylee will have the last laugh at the Weatherspoon dinner table this week as her touchdown — her eighth of the season — moves her two ahead of her older brother.
  — Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• Stlll, though, Henderson and his family have the last laugh on the cork disc thieves -- those weren't designed by Wright and are of little, if any, value.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 17 Oct. 2021
• Yet sterile neutrino advocates might just have the last laugh.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2019
• For a comic critiqued by some misguided souls as not being funny enough, Gadsby sure understands how to get the last laugh.
  — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
• Yet, like the dubious industrial heroes of the present day, Lang may well have the last laugh, as the leader of a movement to forge a brighter technological future.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• As software makers turn to generative AI assistants, will Clippy finally get the last laugh?
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2023
• But Cincinnati’s top-10 offense and defense each, respectively, will get the last laugh again, setting up a potential playoff rematch in January.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024