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Recent Examples of exclamation
That put an exclamation mark on Buehler's eight-year major league career in (2017-24) in Los Angeles.
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Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Pattinson cuts through all of it, one hangdog expression and mouth-breather exclamation at a time.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
Scheer was smart to whittle down the novel’s winding sentences into short, sharp exclamations and curt instructions — and also to be faithful to Melville’s rendition of the captain’s irritable diction.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
What Aimee Lou Wood conveys with an energetic smile and exclamation, Walton Goggins portrays with a scowl and an expletive.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 16 Feb. 2025
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Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Pattinson cuts through all of it, one hangdog expression and mouth-breather exclamation at a time.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
Scheer was smart to whittle down the novel’s winding sentences into short, sharp exclamations and curt instructions — and also to be faithful to Melville’s rendition of the captain’s irritable diction.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
What Aimee Lou Wood conveys with an energetic smile and exclamation, Walton Goggins portrays with a scowl and an expletive.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exclamation
Noun
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According to Desai, during the procedure the volunteer let out a cry of pain, but when questioned about it later the volunteer had no memory.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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As a result, a cacophony of cries to turn off the mics and burn the audio mixers is rising.—
Essence,
Essence,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Furrowed brows, smiles, shouts and tears occupied the faces of passionate protesters, who bellowed chants that echoed off the concrete sky-rise buildings.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
29 Mar. 2025
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On the basketball court below, players’ shouts reverberate off the walls, as a banana vendor ambles along the baseline.—
Erika Page,
The Christian Science Monitor,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Emotional vocalizations and interjections have been observed in every human culture studied to date.—
Katarzyna Pisanski,
Scientific American,
21 Feb. 2025
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This suggests that pain interjections may have originated from nonlinguistic vocalizations.—
Katarzyna Pisanski,
Scientific American,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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At less visible moments, their whispers and screams change the word one artwork at a time.—
Keyaira Boone,
Essence,
9 Apr. 2025
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More importantly, not only will every other part of your new CLE scream AMG, but the car cover and fuel cap will, too.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The music rises calmly, until a machine groans and a siren shrieks.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
9 Apr. 2025
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The air was filled with the shrieks of men in agony, the crackle of machine gun fire, and the thunderous explosions that shook the ground.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN,
7 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Men’s health content related to topics like testosterone, vasectomies and premature ejaculation is so pervasive on social media, in fact, that a 2022 study waded through all of it to find some of the inaccuracies in the high volume of content that was already reaching men.—
Mara Santilli,
Flow Space,
4 Mar. 2025
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The dialogue is both realist, full of the ejaculations and repetitions that characterize human speech, and poetic, with only the occasional anapest interrupting the poem’s iambic pentameter.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Exclamation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclamation. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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