quips 1 of 2

plural of quip

quips

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of quip

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of quips
Verb
The personalized license plate requests that are submitted to the state Department of Motor Vehicles in fact come in all sorts of styles of words and quips, despite being limited by the size, shape and color of the metal markers every driver in Connecticut must attach to their vehicle. Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 29 Dec. 2024 On 12 Pell’s lively social media accounts, the young, predominantly Asian American barbers don’t hesitate to offer advice to teens and men of all ages and ethnicities with humor, quips and confidence. Deepti Hajela, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024 Lucky quips, referencing Trixie's bottom-three placement after the episode's judging. EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024 Matt quips, promoting laughter from the studio audience. Liza Esquibias, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024 Ronan, 30, quips with a hearty laugh. Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quips
Noun
  • The museum also highlights how Swinton was inspired by authoritarian leaders Benito Mussolini and Kim Il-sung to nail her mannerisms.
    Matt Minton, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
  • But there’s something about that sort of adolescent age between 12 and 14, where people’s mannerisms change, and people’s bodies change, and people’s voices change, and all of those things.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Encourage Resilience And Adaptability In a rapidly changing work environment, resilience and adaptability are crucial traits.
    Nilesh Parmar, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Influences have a way of appearing, like family traits, in idiosyncratic details such as the turn of a head or position of a hand, but here the steps and styles have been stripped of attitude and etiquette, to their elemental forms.
    Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Some cognitive scientists have assumed that all humans, whatever their local quirks, reason about time using spatial metaphors, yet at least one language, Tupi-Kawahíb, evidently lacks any mapping between time and space—not left to right, back to front, or downhill to uphill.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Modern-day genetic quirks linked to skin color, hair color and even nose shape can be traced back to our extinct former neighbors.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024

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“Quips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quips. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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