You're here to play with words, and that's exactly what Saturday crosswords do.
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As you delve deeper, however, you can find some terrific ways to play with words.
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We play with words, we play with grids; in fact, Robyn Weintraub has done just that.
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It happens, I suspect, because children love to play with words, and they are not afraid of them.
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Witches play with words, symbolic colors, and natural imagery to turn an intention into a magic image — the sigil.
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Clues become vaguer and start to play with words; themes become trickier and take more work to suss out.
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I am in awe of my editors and fellow constructors who have that knack and play with words so effortlessly.
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" As Fulda explains, to train machines to play with words, you start by asking them to read Wikipedia — "the entire body of Wikipedia.
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Ms. Tenenbaum's songs boldly play with words, sounds and pitches, creating sonic atmospheres that evoke a mood or idea rather than merely stating it.
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The New York Times has invested in our team so that we can continue to offer you ways to play with words, and that's a wonderful thing.
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There are plenty of places to discuss politics on The New York Times website, but we appreciate your cooperation in keeping Wordplay a fun place for everyone to play with words.
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You might not even be interested in making puzzles of your own, but it's hard to play with words day in and day out and not see how they can be manipulated and parsed differently.
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Andreas Carlsson, a Swedish hitmaker who wrote the lyrics along with Max Martin, talked to music website HitQuarters about the ordeal back in 2009: "'I Want It That Way' was a play with words," he said.
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One of the most well known palindromes is "Madam, I'm Adam," and people who love to play with words have contests called the Symmys (yes, that's a palindrome too; what did you expect?) to see who can come up with the best one.
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Most of the clues are straightforward because of the constraint of having to end in a T, but there are a few that play with words today: 64A: We're not supposed to be thinking about reading a magazine both backward and forward, but there is a magazine title that is a palindrome.
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But with letters the center of attention, ABC books can also be perfect vehicles for writers to play with words and for illustrators to show off their design chops — and lately, many have been gorgeous, stylish creations, more Alfa Romeo than family S.U.V. Paging through some of these thoughtfully conceived and designed books can have a calming, almost meditative, effect.
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The goal was to create a mathematical land where children could play with words and sentences. Modeled on LISP, the design goals of Logo included accessible power and informative error messages. The use of virtual Turtles allowed for immediate visual feedback and debugging of graphic programming. The first working Logo turtle robot was created in 1969.
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Like her work for children, the adult poems play with words, but the material is darker, as in "Civil Servant", in which a receptionist in an unemployment office imagines herself as Saint Peter at the Pearly gates, asking her clients "Can I have your sin?" (i.e. Social Insurance Number). An expanded edition of In This House are Many Women was published in 2004.
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In 2006, Émilie Simon released her third album, Végétal, in which she uses the sounds of plants, as hinted by the name. The lyrics play with words, always relating to flora. The album also contains more elements of rock music. This comes forward in some of the more lively tracks, such as "Fleur de Saison", where she plays an electric guitar.
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Writing to McGough in 1980, Larkin congratulated him on the well- thumbed state of the copies of his books in Hull University's library, when compared to Larkin's own.McGough, Said and Done, p. 97 The poetry of McGough has been the subject of academic study. It has been characterised, at least from its early examples, as being reliant on play with words and their meanings.
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"We were just chilling on Twitter and we found this picture of this baby born fifteen minutes earlier," said vocalist Émilie Satt. "It came so hard and so strong into our hearts that after a few minutes we thought maybe we should try to translate this emotion into a song." The song is a play with words using the French word "merci" meaning "thanks" but also "mercy" like the English word and first name.
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Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, and Ester Dean assisted Perry in writing "Peacock" for her third studio album, Teenage Dream, released in 2010. According to Perry, the whole point of writing "Peacock" was to play with words. Midway through recording the album, Perry recalled saying to the people she was working with: "Look I've got a lot of jewels, but I really don't have the crown. I really don't have that full-blown presentation".
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It was just a play with words and something silly and nonsensical to say - hence funny -, which becomes clear to anyone who knows Swedish and reads the lyrics of the song. The song was written in the studio and references Johnny Bodes Bordellmammans visor. Both these recordings were made in the fall of 1983. But whereas the cassette was released shortly after, the EP had to wait until spring 1984 to be released, due to lack of finances.
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During this time Duchamp drew and sold cartoons which reflected his ribald humor. Many of the drawings use verbal puns (sometimes spanning multiple languages), visual puns, or both. Such play with words and symbols engaged his imagination for the rest of his life. In 1905, he began his compulsory military service with the 39th Infantry Regiment,François Lespinasse, Robert Antoine Pinchon: 1886–1943, 1990, repr. Rouen: Association les amis de l'École de Rouen, 2007, working for a printer in Rouen.
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There is a consistent use of pun and innuendo sprinkled in the dialogues of each character. This kind of linguistic play with words and meaning, has marked the playwright for his interest and most keen observations on the aesthetics of language. Night and Day throws up themes of colonization, journalism, language, and alternate or multiple realities. The plot narrative unfolds through the silent or subconscious thoughts of Ruth Carson, who is a by-stander to the main events taking place around her.
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The song begins with a rock and roll count-in, but in this case Pink Floyd decided to play with words and record, "One, Two, Free Four!" The song deals with reflection of one's life, the "evils" of the record industry, and also makes a reference to Roger Waters' father who was killed in World War 2. The music begins in an upbeat manner, while the lyrics tell a very cynical and somewhat depressing story. "Free Four" was released as a single in the U.S. in 1972 but did not chart.
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The Rock was a pageant play with words by T. S. Eliot and music by Martin Shaw, first performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London on 28 May 1934. In a prefatory note Eliot disclaimed full responsibility for the text, saying "I cannot consider myself the author of the "play", but only of the words which are printed here." By Eliot's account, the text was written in collaboration with director E. Martin Browne and R. Webb-Odell. "Choruses from The Rock" are published as part of T.S. Eliot Collected Poems, 1909–1962.
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Carvalho has criticized Georg Cantor's work on transfinite numbers, accusing him of confusing "numbers with their mere signs", seeing his work as a "play with words" and a "false logic". He also said that there are no proofs of heliocentrism and that geocentrism was as valid as heliocentrism "since you can use different points of reference." In 2018, on Facebook, he stated that he had no "definitive answer" to many "questions", such as whether the Earth is spherical or flat. Carvalho also spread the hoax of Pepsi using cells from aborted fetuses to sweeten soft drinks, which has been debunked for many years.
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The band took its name from a character in the Mel Brooks movie Young Frankenstein, and the subtitler translated the name of the character Abby Normal (abnormal) into the Finnish equivalent Eppu Normaali (epänormaali, roughly 'abnormal'; a Finnish equivalent of the original play with words). In 1977, the band participated in a local rock music competition. Finnish folk/pop legend Juice Leskinen was present and issued a demand that they "must win", but the judges were unimpressed—the band did not win. The band began sending demos to various record companies and they were soon signed to Poko Rekords.
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She was unplaced in the 1995 Maltese final with "Just One Love" but managed third place in 1997 with "Lovers Play with Words". In September 2006, Mary announced that she hoped to participate in the Malta Song for Europe Festival in 2007, and submitted a number of songs, none of which were selected for the Maltese Song for Europe Festival. Mary tried again and she has successfully entered two songs which competed in Malta Song For Europe in 2008, but was unsuccessful in reaching the Eurovision. In 2014 it was announced that Mary Spiteri held the longest note for 13 seconds in Eurovision Song Contest history with her performance of Little Child in 1992.
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In 2017, Skoglund was named as the single best player to have originated from Stockholm during the last century, in a vote held by the county's football association and Sveriges Radio. A statue was raised in his honour outside his childhood home at Katarina Bangata in 1984. The monument was designed by artist Olle Aldrin and got named Vi ses vid målet (in English: "See you at the goal"). In 2000, the square in Södermalm where the statue is located officially got named "Nackas Hörna" (in English: "Nacka's Corner") – a play with words with reference to his famous goal in his comeback for Hammarby, where he shot a corner kick straight into goal.
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