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as in wail
a crying out in grief
when the underdogs lost the playoffs, the groans of millions of disappointed fans were heard throughout the land
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as in moan
a long low sound indicating pain or grief
let out a groan when he tried to stand on the sprained ankle
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as in to moan
to utter a moan
heard someone groaning in pain
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Recent Examples of groan
Emily Palmer, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Trees groaning in the wind, underwater ambience off the coasts of Iceland, Indonesia, and Los Angeles.
—Oren Peleg, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
The car then begins to drive as the man, still laying down, continues to yell and groan in the back seat.
—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
Dan Kenyon’s dense sound design is another highly effective component, often blurring the lines between ambient noise and composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s chilling score, which incorporates clanking, groaning, juddering industrial sounds and leans heavily into distortion.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
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Verb
Harris searches his pockets – as McAlpin groans – dumping out his earbuds, keys and loose change.
—Emily Palmer, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Trees groaning in the wind, underwater ambience off the coasts of Iceland, Indonesia, and Los Angeles.
—Oren Peleg, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
The car then begins to drive as the man, still laying down, continues to yell and groan in the back seat.
—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
Dan Kenyon’s dense sound design is another highly effective component, often blurring the lines between ambient noise and composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s chilling score, which incorporates clanking, groaning, juddering industrial sounds and leans heavily into distortion.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for groan
Noun
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Children's wails filled the air, until, one by one, their deafening silence grew much louder.Alex Ross, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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In the middle of her speech, a siren-like wail cut through the air, startling the audience.Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
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The ultimate effect is paradoxical: the more that Valéry eliminates the ghost of pain and passion from the logical machinery of his work, the starker and more affecting the moans and cries of the ghost become.Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Against Notre Dame, the collective moan in the Coliseum with yet another last-minute loss because of Riley’s poor play calling was the breaking point for this lifelong Trojan.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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That rumor began swirling in March of this year and is still a rallying cry amongst rightwing gaming influencers on X (formerly Twitter), Reddit, and the darker, even more hateful, corners of the internet.Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
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Game drives and cocktail cruises are followed by evenings spent drenched in orange, red, and pink hues as the sun sinks into the inky river and the cry of the fish eagles pierces the air.Deborah Calmeyer, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2024
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The present moment demands resolve and affirmative thinking from the foreign policy community about how to sustain and reinforce the international order, not just lamentations about Trump’s destructiveness or resignation about the order’s fate.Jake Sullivan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2018
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No such resourcefulness is evident in Tesori’s score, which wavers between mid-century film-music heroics and sentimental lamentations, with tame avant-garde gestures popping up here and there.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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But these laments seemed to reach a crescendo during the Biden administration, which was seen as too focused on the United States’ growing rivalry with Beijing and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to devote even minimal bandwidth to its southern neighbors.Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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Opponents lament diverting taxpayer funding from public schools to private ones and point to examples of misuse of funds, like buying dune buggies.Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
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The local municipality has declared two days of mourning on Monday and Tuesday.Sharon Braithwaite and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
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Each of our 10 resulting selections is a triumph of alchemy, deriving insight from fresh combinations of dismay and delight, tragedy and comedy, mourning and hope.The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Groan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groan. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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