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"poke at" Definitions
  1. to push a pointed object, your finger, etc. at something repeatedly with small quick movements

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Second, she's there to poke at Ford's credibility by nitpicking.
On occasion, a younger Democrat will poke at the problem.
This is her roundabout way to poke at my unmarried status.
"Range Life" famously has a poke at STP and Smashing Pumpkins.
The corner of a small block will poke at a specific point.
There is that instinct to transgress upon and poke at the mainstream.
"The last thing you need is to poke at the bear," said Copic.
Sick lit exists simply to stimulate and poke at our deepest, ickiest emotions.
If society has a wound, then trolls are there to poke at it.
Adding features and pushing code creates more things for hackers to poke at.
At other times, girls roll their eyes when adults poke at a sore spot.
Democrats and Republicans may both poke at tech, but they often have different worries.
"Our ambition was to poke at both sides of the aisle equally," he added.
You have to poke at a thing, sometimes, and find out where it squeaks.
"Anticipate the areas where investors might really poke at in the presentation," said Paxhia.
Let's first poke at the premise of your question, because the implications here are huge.
"It was a poke at overregulating everything – where are we going to stop?" he said.
Fight Club and King of Comedy poke at the highly specific oddities of their time.
But you can find issues in any story if you poke at it long enough.
James Stockdale, delivered a soliloquy meant to poke at the dominance of the two parties.
But Strange used Bannon's support to poke at Moore at a debate on Thursday night.
Wouldn't trust anyone under 30 who didn't poke at his or her or their elders.
That said, the name was also meant "as an intentional poke at Big Beer," he explained.
She could poke at Veronica in the way only someone who knows you too well can.
It is also a mistake to view this provision as just a poke at President Trump.
Over the weekend, McCain appeared to poke at Trump for deferring his Vietnam War draft order.
Everyone from Twitter trolls to her family members know better than to poke at Khloé on purpose.
The instruments an altimeter to provide ocean data, radiometer to poke at the atmosphere, and positioning instruments.
Rather, it is the subtle things that poke at her, the little moments that twist her stomach.
This helps to poke at the idea that powerful women are not only evidence of feminist progress.
The animated series latest poke at 45's White House attempts to capture the vibe 125 days in.
Anonymous, though never codifying any sort of working philosophy, tended to poke at the powerful and the zealous.
More like an ultra-modern piece of art that people will poke at until they discover the camera.
"I hope to poke at those motivational forces that cause many of us to work too hard," she adds.
The movie is a puckish poke at authoritarianism of all stripes, from the patriarchy to the Iron Curtain bureaucracy.
Do you want to describe just briefly what it is and then we can poke at it a little bit?
The copious buttons and switches meant that there were lots of things for players to poke at and play with.
But the more we poke at our estimates, the harder it is for us to imagine they can be achieved.
Both pieces poke at what simmers beneath the placid surface of ordinary lives, and what they unearth is darkly disturbing.
You check Twitter, thumb through email, poke at the New York Times app to make sure we're not at nuclear war.
PIRRO: To poke at the fact that she is saying that she was Native American and she can&apost prove it.
It's also a poke at a post-Duchamp art milieu in which consumers often can't tell the art from the trash.
He's been the quieter behind-the-scenes leader, leaving Benioff to take public stands on social issues and poke at rivals.
The president's son began his talk with a poke at the news media: "I'd like to thank the press," he said.
Washington (CNN)Minutes before Air Force One landed in Brussels, President Donald Trump took another poke at the European Union on Twitter.
Lots of stories about genius poke at a quiet tragedy of exceptionalism, but this isn't one of them — being awesome is awesome.
In his "satirical poke" at Hands Across America, Peele said he wasn't calling into question the "well intentioned, good people" behind it.
Biden's remarks seemed a subtle but stubborn poke at the week's scandal — one that risked Biden's crucial support with African American voters.
Another trait aye-ayes share with humans: when their bottle runs dry, they continue to poke at it sadly, suggesting they want more.
Unfortunately, most speculative pieces do not follow this model and instead poke at those parts of our brains made for wishing or fearing.
But he says his goal is not merely to stake out contrarian turf, or to poke at those who might disagree with him.
I want to poke at these things and look at them and reframe them in this particular way that I'm able to do.
They prefer to poke at the caricature of Fox reducing it to a handful of opinion shows that are largely sympathetic to President Trump.
Styled after a metal water bottle, Philips' PowerPotion DLP3003 is lacking in sharp corners that might poke at you when slipped into a pocket.
Human Head Simulator fits the bill nicely—it's a blocky, bizarro, disembodied head that you can click on, poke at, and… rearrange its hairs.
At times, this lets the show poke at mistakes, ways that some error or flaw or even crime is being done, in civilization's name!
Yes, we can find issues in the original version Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King if we poke at them long enough.
I think that's kind of where we wanted the piece to go: We wanted to kind of poke at what accountability really looks like.
And certainly there are plenty of pieces of pop culture that really should exist only to poke at the foibles of the Trump era.
First of all, you have to have that ability to make a joke or poke at him or just show how absurd he is.
HAHN: Well, you know, the President of the United States continuing to poke at that is just unpresidential, it&aposs uncivilized and it&aposs ridiculous.
There isn't really a tutorial or rules, just things you intrinsically pick up as you fiddle and poke at different parts to find the solution.
The footage eventually moves to a hallway, where someone using a stick-like item to poke at something that is on fire on the ledge.
At Georgetown we had the Young Americans for Freedom and they just sometimes liked to just poke at left-wing people who then overreact badly.
The site was called "Make Our Planet Great Again," a phrase Macron has frequently deployed on Twitter to poke at Trump over the Paris agreement.
" In a poke at Donald J. Trump's slogan, "Make America Great Again," she declared, "America never stopped being great; we need to make it whole again.
The popular format is back in the form of "I am straight/gay/bi" memes, letting Twitter users poke at tired gender and sexual identity binaries.
"No matter how many holes you poke at the bottom of a bucket, it'll never get dry while it's standing underneath a waterfall," the Stormer declared.
President Donald Trump took over the sprawling US government today, and some of his new employees are using the occasion to poke at him on Twitter.
If you've ever seen a kid poke at a tablet for hours on end, though, they just might have the tenacity to see a project through.
Far more sense than bolting a touch screen onto a non-touch-optimized OS and forcing you to poke at tiny buttons meant for a mouse.
My only qualm with the touchscreen is how it wobbles when you poke at it, but that's a necessary concession to get the screen so thin.
If you look closely at the coins in the game, the symbol on the coin is the Russian ruble, to poke at his connection to Russia.
Despite my health and safety concerns over a "stick and poke" at a boozy Portland party, I can confirm the results are some of TV's cutest tattoos.
He also uses his Twitter account to pick fights with Donald Trump and poke at rival CEOs, especially AT&T's Randall Stephenson and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure.
People sometimes use them to poke at the current leadership—Mao symbolises an era that was, as some Chinese remember it, a better one for the underprivileged.
Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special takes what appears to be a loving poke at Key & Peele, but in an interview with CBS, Chappelle got more in-depth.
He argued that market reforms should be used to make the economic cake bigger for everyone, a poke at statists who emphasised dividing the cake more fairly.
The doc's pager went off, and he wouldn't leave Poke at his place, so he drove him to the hospital and stuck him in the waiting room.
The game does humorously poke at Peach's trope-y and stagnant role in the series towards the end, but I'll let you find that on your own.
Sometimes the jokes poke at celebrities who are rumored to be closeted; he's proud of a recent segment that mocks Eddie Murphy's early-career anti-gay bigotry.
As the government put his relationship with this country in peril, thousands of people chirped in online to poke at the unlikeliness, and precariousness, of his situation.
Creative Director of the project Joshua Pipic tells Creators that the goal was to get into the minds of festivalgoers and poke at "what was missing" from Coachella.
LYNCHBURG, Va. – Former President Jimmy Carter took a gentle poke at President Donald Trump at the start of a commencement address to graduates of Liberty University in Virginia.
It was not clear whether the Americans tacitly accepted Mr. Zarif's visit to Biarritz or if it was in effect a poke at Mr. Trump by Mr. Macron.
During the flight, the two poke at whatever's in their bowls while R2-D2 brings over a bowl of his own, along with a brown, brick-looking object.
It was not clear whether the Americans tacitly accepted Mr. Zarif's visit to Biarritz or if it was in effect a poke at Mr. Trump by Mr. Macron.
In the Dawn's case, it didn't take me long to get used to not being able to poke at the screen and instead having to rely on a controller.
He draws on historical metaphors and philosophical ideas and cultural bromides, stringing them together in forceful sentences that seem smart and invigorating, until you start to poke at them.
A composer who has long used popular material to poke at the solemnity of the classical tradition here seems to be exposing the dominating urge behind much pop music.
Album Review One upside to working in a genre in stagnation is that opportunities to creatively react to it — to underscore its weaknesses, to poke at its norms — abound.
She danced gamely, but her hair was coming loose; she kept raising a hand to poke at the strands, and her smile tightened each time she felt the disarray.
" Leno even snuck in a quick poke at the president: "President Obama's doing well, approval ratings [are] at 51 percent," he said, adding: "The other 49 percent are tax payers.
Sure, there are plenty of loudmouths who claim you can just, like, poke at your own hand and extrapolate how done your meat is from that, but it's a lie.
A blink-and-you'll-miss-it poke at Pixar both acknowledges an obvious debt to the "Toy Story" movies and emphasizes the philosophical challenge that "Sausage Party" marshals against them.
You poke at the screen, and you say "oh no," as a contraption topples forward onto its head, and then you say "oh no!" as it slides slowly off the platform.
It was a big swing and a miss on Maher's part, which is too bad, because it was also an opportunity to poke at a weak spot in the guest's argument.
The thin, clear lines and flat watercolor shades of Knisley's artwork make everything look cute and happy, and she takes every opportunity to poke at the excesses of bridal-­marketing madness.
The true value of the solar plexus is that in any standard guard, it is still there to poke at where every other valuable body shot is shielded by the elbows.
Now she and her daughter, Kim Brug, offer eight kinds of poke at Ono Seafood, a small, eternally besieged storefront with a couple of picnic tables, next to that same garage.
Earlier this year, the chain sold Real Meals to fit consumers' ever-changing moods — a clever poke at McDonald's Happy Meals — as well as specially licensed Stranger Things Upside Down Whoppers.
The novice team president experienced near-immediate second thoughts and began to poke at and demean Anthony, in hopes of persuading his aging, knee-sore star to agree to a trade.
It's unclear if it worked, but the strategy has been clarified over last night's debate and last month's debate: Poke at Buttigieg's record in politics, and he becomes gauzier and more defensive.
One is a clear poke at Samsung: You buy their phone, TV, speaker, and fridge with the promise of simplicity, but more and more often, this is a way to force loyalty.
Today, French scientists took a poke at humans' intellectual hegemony by demonstrating, for the first time ever, that a single-celled organism without a brain or nervous system is capable of learning.
Projects like Poppy poke at the cyborg nature of online fame itself, where female bodies are mapped onto the social platforms they inhabit — constantly resized, customized and upgraded to please their followers.
"Since that car accident my head is no good with numbers," offers Dee Dee, with her own trademark — a lie wrapped in a sympathetic excuse that few people are likely to poke at.
Among them is an artist's fanciful rendering of Donald Trump about to kiss former rival Ted Cruz, a poke at a Republican Party platform that would limit gay rights, the sign's sponsor said.
Some, like r/iama's Rampart award, poke at notable moments in the subreddit's history, while others can point to a subreddit's culture, like the "Apt Analysis" medal that r/nba has been testing.
Transparent's central conceit is that Maura's transition—and the suppressed family secrets it unearthed—has pushed all three Pfefferman siblings to poke at their identities and question the ways they have understood themselves.
And I had a quote in there that said I was surprised at how thin-skinned my peers in venture would be when someone starts to poke at the model a little bit.
As Mr. Obama was wrapping up his speech, he could not resist a gentle poke at his predecessor, who is known for his restlessness, laying odds on the length of his own remarks.
He kept invoking "lawful presence" as a spear to poke at Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., challenging the solicitor general on the use of the phrase deep in the government's reply brief.
Cook doesn't actually name Facebook, but Cook, a 1988 Duke business school grad, has been know to use public platforms to poke at the social media company's data collection in comparison to Apple's.
Depending on the user, for most, the iPad is basically either a large phone you use to browse the web extra big or a minimally productive laptop replacement you poke at on the go.
While many of the Super Bowl ads this year appeared to take a poke at President Donald Trump, this ad for a relatively unknown hair-care brand made the strongest - but most lighthearted — reference.
Being dismissive—of discourse, of questions from patients, of practices that women might find empowering or healing, of daring to poke at a long-held belief—seems like the most dangerous practice of all.
As a poke at the producers of Live and Let Die, Dali gave the Emperor's face to actor Sean Connery, who was the first to portray Ian Fleming's literary spy character in a film.
He's picked up the tongs to poke at something in a cast iron skillet and rests his hand on a tea towel he's just pulled away from a lit burner on the gas range.
"What we will take out of this and how we will turn it into something inspiring, and how it will poke at more universal issues, is the thing that excites me the most," he continued.
It's a godsend for those days where you've got the tablet propped up on your stomach while you're in bed or on the couch and you just can't muster the energy to poke at the screen.
After Cosby's disastrous set, the show returned from commercial break, and Carson couldn't resist one last poke at the audience which was chomping at the bit for the musical guest to be introduced at long last.
Moe's seized the moment to poke at its rival by offering diners who tasted Chipotle's cheese dip a free cup of its queso with any purchase at its Avenue of the Americas location on July 13.
Her second video, a gift for her real audience, is a soft poke at the clickbait trend of female vanlifers showing how to rig and use an outdoor shower, exposes the trend for what it is.
Subramanian took a poke at the "poor standards" of the ratings agencies and included a factbox in his report that chided S&P for upgrading China despite its slowing growth and deteriorating debt metrics, while overlooking India.
Then there's the beat that's marching band influences invoke Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" — is this a poke at a particular dumb blonde or simply a callback to an era of pop in which Lavigne feels more comfortable?
It elevated my phone at an angle to turn the phone into an alarm clock — with a quick poke at the screen, I could glance at the time, disable an alarm or look at a calendar alert.
Others appear to be part of organized groups, arriving at the games with matching hats and shirts bearing the phrase, "Russia in My Heart," a poke at the location of the flag missing on the athletes' attire.
Edelstein was often in the kitchen of what was called the Polish Tea Room — a poke at the upscale Russian Tea Room — cooking from her recipes or making sure her chefs did not veer from her instructions.
But if you poke at this wave-like object with certain instruments, or if the object interacts in specific ways with nearby particles, it loses its wavelike properties and starts acting like a discrete point—a particle.
President-elect Donald Trump continued to use social media to poke at China Saturday, saying on Twitter that the U.S. should refuse to take a drone seized in international waters after the Communist country agreed to return it.
The characters slyly poke at the tropes — in the pilot, when Mie is shown moving into her grandparents' old house, she jokes with her daughter that there's a "big ghost" who lives in the attic of the home.
Beto O'Rourke already took an apparent poke at the mayor, per AP: "No private planes for this campaign," Beto said in a video recorded aboard a commercial plane waiting for takeoff and posted to social media on Monday.
I watched him poke at the stitched leather dash, loudly compliment the comfiness of the seats and fiddle with the nine-speaker Bose sound system EQ. "I am super impressed with the Cruze, man," he admitted to me.
The threat of getting owned — being revealed as oblivious, uninformed or incompetent — works like a virtual Panopticon to keep people in a state of anxiety, keen to guard their own insecurities as they poke at other people's flaws.
Each work is retailed at roughly 2,000 times the price of the IKEA hanger, proposing a double poke at mass consumerism, and at the art world's propensity to transform dust to gold by validation of a gallery's white walls.
I initially read that final jab as a poke at economists like Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong: the ones arguing in favour of deficit-financed fiscal stimulus even as the American economy (in Mr Cowen's view) approaches full capacity.
To critics like Ware, the fact that the paintings both animalize Black men and poke at the stereotype of Black people and fried chicken—in a fried chicken restaurant in a Black neighborhood of DC makes it even worse.
Hex House is a tiny, adorable haunted house-as-toybox, a sweet little diorama that demands you poke at it in order to elicit delightful reactions—like little ghosts coming out of graves, or sneezes from the decrepit mailbox.
The highly praised 2017 film "The Square" contains a running gag about an art work that's nothing but piles of rocks, which keeps getting swept up by the cleaning staff of a museum; it's clearly a poke at Beuys.
Trump, who's scheduled to meet with all six next week, said he was "fully committed" to work with Congress on the issue, but still took the liberty to poke at lawmakers in his speech and throw more pressure their way.
Shortly before Mr Trump's inauguration in January, Mr Xi told a gathering of the world's elite in Davos, Switzerland, that all signatories should stick to the Paris accord "instead of walking away from it"—a poke at Mr Trump that his audience applauded.
Trump, who's scheduled to meet with all six leaders this week, said Wednesday in Missouri that he was "fully committed" to working with Congress on the issue, but still took the liberty to poke at lawmakers and throw more pressure their way.
The range of box deals, an apparent poke at the Happy Meals sold by rival chain McDonald's, include the Blue Meal, the Salty Meal, the Yaaas Meal, the DGAF [Don't Give A F---] Meal and the Pissed Meal, according to NBC News.
And if you find yourself confronted by someone who wants to say mean things to you, know that Mars retrograde means that people don't know how to work with their anger—don't poke at the situation, and take the necessary steps to keep your composure.
The fact that the 2016 election continues to occupy so much of the country's public consciousness — and that Trump continues to poke at Clinton even as she attempts to remain above the fray — make the prospects of a rematch feel simultaneously inevitable and impossible.
While Russia has always been fitfully involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts over the years, Mr. Putin now seems intent on taking the lead, both as a poke at Washington amid continuing tension over Syria and Ukraine and as a show of Russian significance.
At a 2016 rehearsal for a fashion show at which cheerleaders modeled bikinis, Ware claims, she was dressed with angel wings — something Ware believes was a poke at her virginity — and then physically grabbed and verbally harangued by Grogan as she exited the runway.
You can sheepishly poke at some chantilly lace and give a tentative nod to the cheek-revealing undies, but maybe you just want someone to answer a million questions about what those numbers on the tag mean — and sometimes, it's not so easy to seek out help.
My friends had to buy those little heater packs to insert in their gloves last week when that Siberian cold front blasted through Europe, and I got to smile with superiority every time they removed their gloves in sub-zero weather just to poke at their phones.
Usually, this consists of me going to some shithole apartment complex, where a guy named Brice or Shay will blast techno and poke at my back for five minutes before turning me over like a rotisserie chicken and giving me a no-good, very sad handjob.
Studies have already shown that at 16 the part of the brain that processes "hot cognition" is not fully developed and makes them more susceptible to emotional outbursts and the bias in decisions that follows, especially when a presidential candidate tries to poke at emotions to rally people together.
His translations of the 18th- and early 19th-century French tradition for black American models — he has also made paintings after Fragonard and Géricault — have always been his most interesting for how they update traditions of ornament and how they poke at Enlightenment promises of universalism and freedom.
Much of his work is motivated by a desire to poke at and test widespread theories; his work on sales tax visibility challenged the assumption that consumers rationally incorporate the cost of all taxes, and his work on retirement savings challenged the idea that subsidizing savings necessarily increases it.
President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE on Friday took to Twitter to poke at his reality TV replacement.
Just the idea that in 2018, people have to schlep down to a gym or something between particular hours on a particular weekday and stand in line for hours to poke at choices on a touchscreen, all while being monitored by creepy onlookers ... it's an insult to modernity, all of it.
Meanwhile, with less fanfare, a couple of vendors have been selling poke at outdoor markets: PokéOno, run by Andrew Danieli and Deborah Chung, who plan to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant this year, and East Coast Poké, started by Brooklyn-born Alfred DiMartini, a former line cook at Lupa and Bouley.
At the Fox All-Star Party in Pasadena, California, on Friday, John Stamos opened up about the small poke at Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in the first episode of Fuller House, where the show plays upon the twins' real-life career, explaining that Michelle Tanner is absent from the family reunion because she's busy running her fashion empire in New York.
He may, like most writers, aspire to aphorism ("envy being best understood as empathy gone wrong"), but, by the nature of its brevity, aphorism is evidence-free, and what Amis enjoys most—outside those priestly moments of Bellow recitation—is offering the proof of things: opening up the patient, putting the organs on the table, and taking a poke at the evidence.
He can draw on comparisons to how his tough talk turned into a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The security clearance fight, while almost entirely symbolic, allows Trump to poke at the idea -- beloved by his supporters -- that the so-called "deep state" is out there and working to undercut him because he poses such a threat to their permanent rule of government.
P.K.L.'s clients included Maypo cereal (adults, like Mickey Mantle, were enlisted to want their Maypo, too), Wolfschmidt's Vodka (a bottle with the line "Who was that tomato I saw you with last night?" was rejected as too risqué by The New Yorker), The New York Herald Tribune (the slogan "Who says a good newspaper has to be dull?" was a poke at The New York Times) and Xerox (a chimpanzee was recruited to prove the simplicity of using the first plain paper copier).

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