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as in shrieking
to cry out loudly and emotionally
yelped with surprise when everything fell off the closet shelf and onto his head
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yelping
Adjective
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Actually 2 questions: 1) Do race fans, reporters, and aficionados accept vague whiny complaints from the drivers about how the car is to blame without demanding some type of backup?—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025 -
No, because this is the NHL, where all the GMs are whiny babies and making trades is too hard.—
Sean McIndoe,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Three were arrested, including — and here’s perhaps the wildest part — an unrelated man who showed up armed at the scene hours later, after a relative told him about the shooting, surrendered his firearms to police and began yelling at them.—
Joanna Allhands,
The Arizona Republic,
26 Dec. 2024
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And there are people yelling for Dylan to come back.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Leaders outside academia would be wise to consider Harvard's clear and strident response closely.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The Biden White House was strident in its condemnation of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and was the single-most important country for Kyiv's supply of military aid.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The Wall, though, will be delightfully old school in a cap tip to the court-hugging, earsplitting, rowdy venues of college basketball’s glory days.—
Bryce MillerColumnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2023
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Donald, Mark, Willie, Billy, and Tony — practically everyone in Hollis within shouting distance of 203rd Street was laughing at me at earsplitting volume.—
Stephen A. Smith,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.—
Hisham Matar,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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Since the war began in Gaza, more than six months ago, the Israeli magazine +972 has published some of the most penetrating reporting on the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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The woman had healed fractures to her left eye, nasal area and lower left arm, the release said.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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The resulting flow of nasal mucus is the nose’s effort to restore its salty nature.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Only Jean-Baptiste could make such a screed so funny, so piercing and so devastating.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
10 Jan. 2025
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The two-story space offers a piercing and welding studio, as well as free engravings.—
Violet Goldstone,
WWD,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Yelping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yelping. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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