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Recent Examples of scoff
Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
And in the hours after the text chat was revealed, aides who worked for Clinton scoffed at the news.
—Amie Parnes, The Hill, 25 Mar. 2025
Roland Wilkerson, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
That drew scoffs of laughter from the Democratic side of the aisle.
—Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, Stephen Groves and Keving Freking The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023
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Verb
The former official scoffed at the notion that the information Hegseth released was unclassified.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
And in the hours after the text chat was revealed, aides who worked for Clinton scoffed at the news.
—Amie Parnes, The Hill, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
As the ancient practice of yoga morphs to meet ever-shifting American tastes, Charlotte is embracing a new variation that might have drawn scoffs just a few years ago.
—Roland Wilkerson, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
That drew scoffs of laughter from the Democratic side of the aisle.
—Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, Stephen Groves and Keving Freking The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoff
Verb
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Dislodged aphids rarely find their way back up and are often devoured by spiders and ground beetles.—
Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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For decades, they were cast as invasive predators in American dining, displacing or devouring the small restaurants that came before.—
Meghan McCarron Phil Donohue,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But the moralistic sneer didn’t take long to enter the postgame analysis.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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The male characters are, typically, petulant narcissists with perpetual sneers who insult and cajole their female love interests into almost invariably unhealthy relationships.—
Josh Bell,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Another great one is the 4-7-8 breath, which activates the parasympathetic nervous system: inhale for four counts, hold for seven and exhale slowly for eight.—
Michelle Stansbury,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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But inhaling enough can turn the act of breathing into an existential hazard, prompting or worsening asthma, COPD, respiratory infections, and permanent lung damage.—
Zoë Schlanger,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Little things, like the close-ups of Moss’s face with her little smirk, used so frequently as to lose all meaning, began to irritate me.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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The fifth season began with the smirk seen ’round the globe, pitting June Osborne (Moss) against Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski).—
Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
Verb
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That meant, gulp, 11 hot dogs had to be consumed in the game, which lasted 2 hours, 33 minutes.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2025
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Papa uses this moment to gulp the wine in Elijah's cup.—
Holly Rizzuto Palker,
Parents,
27 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Why, many onlookers have asked, should an orchestra or opera company gobble up millions of dollars from wealthy sponsors to subsidize the salaries of musicians who mainly perform music by white men from centuries past, music for which (judging by ticket sales) demand is limited?—
Matthew Aucoin,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
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Putin is not feigning peace to stay on Trump’s good side merely to gobble up more Ukrainian territory.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Scoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoff. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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