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Example sentences for: pokes

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Geraldine Ferraro's resignation as co-host of Crossfire , to run for the Senate from New York, has occasioned the usual pokes at CNN's nightly political interview-cum-debate program.
The article you saw was this month's edition of Keeping Tabs, a lighthearted monthly column I write for Slate that sums up--and pokes fun at--what the supermarket tabloids have been writing about for the previous month.
The film is "[a] triumph of sustained silliness" (Andy Seiler, USA Today ), which pokes fun at the family's bad taste while elevating their home-grown values and simple familial love.
Maxim pokes fun at its progenitors but with considerable ironic affection.
A cover profile pokes fun at Donald Trump.