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also miaow
as in yowl
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Recent Examples of meow
Candice Bergen made her mark quickly and then punctuated it with a pointed meow.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024
The cat meows at me and bird-watches by the window facing the street.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 5 Aug. 2024
These days every Fantasia screening begins with a cacophony of meows — timed by the audience to start and stop at black leader.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
It’s been 20 years since Catwoman, and Halle Berry is still the cat’s meow.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 1 July 2024
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024
The cat meows at me and bird-watches by the window facing the street.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 5 Aug. 2024
These days every Fantasia screening begins with a cacophony of meows — timed by the audience to start and stop at black leader.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
It’s been 20 years since Catwoman, and Halle Berry is still the cat’s meow.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 1 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meow
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As a shape-shifting rock poet — a prophet with a nasal yowl — Dylan and his opaque words were particularly attractive for theorists of the literary, musical and conspiratorial varieties.Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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The guitar riffs recall how Mastodon sounded circa Leviathan, paired with Blythe’s inimitable yowls.Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024
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Gorgeous — there’s no way around it — with beamed ceilings, hardwoods throughout, half a block from the Washington Square mews … $4,995, 1-bedroom: Charming prewar with good bones and a ridiculously small kitchen.Nora DeLigter, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2025
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And in news that mews, the movie Cats is leaving the site on Jan. 15.Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 1 Jan. 2025
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Puppy Play While Kidman’s character Romy didn’t wear a pup hood or bark in Babygirl, the dog imagery intermixed with the Dom(me)/sub dynamics throughout the film felt at the very least like a nod to puppy play.Fran Tirado, Them, 10 Jan. 2025
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Then repot your plant using a succulent or cactus potting mix that has plenty of perlite, sand, or bark for quick drainage.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Jan. 2025
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Image: Kidde The alarms connect to the Ring app and, as well as sending alerts when triggered, will notify you about a low battery to help avoid those 2AM chirps.Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
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This beautiful cat makes the sweetest chirps and meows to talk to you!Staff report, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2025
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And on Thursday night, Ken Carter was one of about two dozen people inside a basketball gym, where the only signs a game was taking place were the squeaks of sneakers and four buzzers to signal the end of each quarter.Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
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There’s no dialogue, at least none decipherable to human ears — everything is a symphony of meows, woofs, squawks, grunts, squeaks, squeals and simian cries.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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The jungle struck up its evening symphony: the sweet chittering of insects, the distant bellowing of monkeys, the occasional screech of a kite.Charlie Cordero, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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But as the race against former President Trump screeches into its final week, joy has taken the back seat.David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
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There’s no dialogue, at least none decipherable to human ears — everything is a symphony of meows, woofs, squawks, grunts, squeaks, squeals and simian cries.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Flocks of sparrows and parrots chirp and squawk in the palms overhead.Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 9 June 2024
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But Playtime: Fulfillment might as well be a commercial, as a bicycle courier, played by Kevin Hart’s daughter Heaven, zips past PlayStation characters like Kratos and Sackboy while her famous dad yaps in her ear.Scott Meslow, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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Yappers, and those on the receiving end of their yap.Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Meow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meow. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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