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second bananas

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plural of second banana

as in top bananas

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Homer’s Odysseus survives on his wits as much as force of arms.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 27 July 2026
As always, when using modern-era AI, keep your eyes open and your wits about you.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of wits

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His joke hints at the other purpose of the address, which is to examine the health of the ecosystem in which comedians seek their livelihood and hold it to a higher standard.

— Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 30 July 2026
The comedians overlapped for four years on SNL — from when Fineman was hired in 2019 to when Strong exited in 2022.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 July 2026

Definition of comedians

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Moreover, if Griffin stepped into public life now, the cynical wags in finance would declare the reason obvious—his hedge fund’s returns have been sagging.

— Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Many critics, political pundits, and wags asked, somewhat rhetorically, whether anyone in the administration recalls how handing the responsibility of nuclear weaponry over to machines turned out in the Terminator movies.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026

Definition of wags

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An isolated patient can find medical influencers, therapist creators, or medical humorists who translate the opaque language of healthcare into something human, tailored, and easier to understand.

— Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
By 1980, most newspapers had humorists as well as analysts on their editorial or op-ed pages, and some, especially smaller ones that did not have separate business or lifestyle sections, ran advice columns on business and other topics there.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026

Definition of humorists

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Fellow Hollywood Bowl funnymen will include Shane Gillis, John Mulaney and Marcello Hernández.

— Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
Lord and Miller are boisterous funnymen, with a flair for the exaggerated and the outlandish that feels born of their frequent work in animation.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of funnymen

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There are Jewish jokes and Jewish jokesters and Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters.

— Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
The Harvard jokesters’ ad noted that a $10 million reward is being offered for the return of the 13 missing masterpieces that were taken from the Boston museum 35 years ago.

— Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025

Definition of jokesters

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