as in to shout
to utter with a sudden burst of strong feeling the whole team exclaimed with one voice, "We won!"

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Recent Examples on the Web In the table tennis room, fans whir while pairs of players in their 70s and 80s dart at the ball, exclaiming in Cantonese while working up a sweat. Ashley Milne-Tyte, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Oct. 2024 Lewis Pullman as author Ben Mears emerges mostly unscathed while the great Alfre Woodard as a town doc gets reduced to exclaiming and explaining. Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024 One day, Garten took a messy bite of a tea sandwich on camera and—still chewing—exclaimed over its tastiness. Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024 O’Connell exclaimed, clapping and blowing kisses to Chen Moonves. Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for exclaim 

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“Exclaim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclaim. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.

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