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Sam Corbin

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🏁 crossword column for @nytimes.com ✍️ humor for NYer 📖 writing a book about the WOTY-verse

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
buying anything off facebook marketplace
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
kinda wish there was a way to mass text your friends with new kids for baby updates. “hello [name], what’s the baby up to”
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
enshippification 😤
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was told this never happens in nature
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
julia louis-dreyfus in “Veep” laughing nervously and saying “what the fuck”
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
any physical copies to be found in bookstores??
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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the first things I did on summer holiday was have this really great conversation with @carrieg.bsky.social and @meganfigueroa.bsky.social about The LANGUAGE BEAT and writing about language. New episode, just released! vocalfriespod.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...
vocalfriespod.buzzsprout.com
The Language Beat Essays - The Vocal Fries
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Michael Erard about his newest e-book, The Language Beat: Essays and Reporting on Language and Life. AI Indigenous correspondents
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
source [via e-mail]: as I explained above, ok so you're mad at me
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i cannot be first one to say this
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
[jonathan richman voice] i was cancelled in the lesbian bar, ah-oo
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
rumor has it taylor swift is dropping nor’easter eggs this weekend about her next album
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
yes
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this right here. this is the future of language
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
update: I didn’t win and was the only contestant who spent the majority of the game in the negatives, but that is my lot as a game-show personality hire
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
if I choke please tell the wordplay readers I love them
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m about to be on a jeopardy! thing at work that is apparently streamed to desks worldwide, so the next time I post here it might be from the grave of my reputation
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
somebody stopp me
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
petitioning immediately to designate propp as opposite of opp i.e. meaning friend and if you are my propp you will prop me up here
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ok even crazier is that even though abbreviations like "opp" and "oppo" meaning anti come from the same etymology, the word "prop" as in prop up / support is unrelated???
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
omg I just realized that "proponent" is the antonym for "opponent." what he hell
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
there is so much going on in this universe that we don’t know about
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you simply have to laugh when it turns out that the recording of the video interview you conducted with an ASL speaker was just filming your face the entire time
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
autosave, save thyself!!! (somehow it did not)
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
today is the day I became a real author (lost several hours' worth of work to a computer glitch)
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
just got a frozen espresso martini spilled all over me and honestly? i smell amazing
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm working at a cafe today and whenever I do this I cannot help but say to myself: livin' la vida laptop
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
no one will buy the crandle (cranberry candle) I spent $40 on just to make a simpsons joke last christmas, so it just lives on my shelf and I’m forced to stare at this dumb overcommitment to a bit every day
its a cranberry candle in a can, or crandle
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
t.s. eliot line about measuring your life in coffee spoons but it’s me with all the insane ways I end calls
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
not me ending an interview by saying “well…enjoy!” about nothing
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
started thinking about this last month when my coworker described the odyssey as "you know, the matt damon of it all"
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
in today's installment of "everything new is old again," please enjoy this 2004 Language Log post re: the snowclone/phrasal template "the ___ of it all," which I heard so much this year. LL post includes "the why of it all" and "the broccoli of it all" (and the headline "the backpack of it all")!!
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Language Log: The backpack of it all
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am surrounded by enablers
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
there should be a wellness check automatically triggered by drinking a diet coke before 11am
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Peter K is a sportsball knower compared to those guys @pjkaz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One of my favorite fictional universes, love these nerds
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the most typical @jazzpomegranate.com · 08/09/2026
my mom raised me on star trek the next generation in case you want to know where my morality comes from
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For Harry Potter fans who can't let go of the franchise because it would leave a hole in their identity that only a massive global, inter-generational fandom phenomenon could fill might I introduce you to Trek
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
this deer is gonna need therapy when he’s older
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
it’s been 60 years of Star Trek, and I wrote about its intergenerational staying power:
nytimes.com
‘Star Trek’’s Intergenerational Fan Base Shares More Than Just Quotes (Gift Article)
After 60 years, the series gives families a chance to pass down not only shared language but values, too.
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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Doing today’s Bee and I’m again tempted to start another blog post about perfectly everyday linguistics words that are not on the word list—I’ve attempted three so far. But if you missed the Gameplay newsletter yesterday—have a look—my actual list gets its day in the sun
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
and it never would have escalated if he could just have had someone calmly tell him he wasn’t dying
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
there should be a number you can call if you ate something too spicy
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
sometimes the post-solve click is so satisfying though! you often don’t *need* to know what’s going on before you fill everything
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
also, after taking a flight home last night that featured 7A, I feel compelled to share today’s wordplay column: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/c...
nytimes.com
NYT Crossword Answers for Sept. 7, 2026
Jeff Chen and Stephan Prock want to help you up your game.
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I was so very thrilled to chat with @lynneguist.bsky.social for today’s newsletter about Spelling Bee’s blatant rejection of LABOUR day to all who observe static.nytimes.com/email-conten...
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Gameplay: The Road Less Travel(l)ed
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
if they didn’t want us to use girl math then they shouldn’t have invented rewards credit cards that “pay for themselves”
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
you can't spell ampersand without and. really makes you think
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
clorox, clean thyself
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
had a dream that I was in a politics class and someone tried to make a dig at liberalism by leaning over to me and saying "more like liableralism!" in the dream it was clever
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
[getting out of bed, reluctant and groggy] Welp gotta add to the lore
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
it occurs to me that I really do tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen and pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come to life
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