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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bird
Noun
  • Still, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that about 34 people a day in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that’s one person every 42 minutes.
    Josh Max, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • And while a normal person will just digest that and process it, an allergic person actually sees this as a foreign threat.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • They’re comforted by the hoots of owls and snorts of pig frogs.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
  • Even so, some of Lucy’s pronouncements are so truly awful that a blunt snort of laughter is the only response.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The Wimbledon men's final between three-time Grand Slam winner Sinner and Alcaraz (a five-time Grand Slam champ) comes less than two months after Alcaraz stormed back from a huge deficit to win the French Open in five sets on June 8.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
  • Take Eric, a man in his late sixties who has served some thirty-five years and will never be released.
    Brooke Allen, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Evacuation information from Cal Fire Evacuation Orders Immediate threat to life.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2025
  • This was quite an awakening as for most of my life I am defined as being part of a minority class.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Yungblud’s voice — a piercing yelp that exists somewhere between Gerard Way’s wail and Brian Molko’s sneer — slotted him in the alt-rock world, but his aspirations seemed to stretch far beyond that categorization.
    Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
  • His voice—typically pitched between a bellow and a sneer—was instantly recognizable to the couple that night.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • There’s going to be a steady rotation of guys getting snaps along the line.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2025
  • And are people still talking about this guy, this creep?
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The day went off without many obvious hitches, although one unexpected development was Disturbed singer David Draiman being greeted with boos as well as cheers.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 5 July 2025
  • Austin entrepreneur Kendra Scott has a new boo: Country music star Zac Brown 🌳Texas heat cramping your outdoor activity?
    Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Once upon a time, the movie tells us, people flocked to see these giant creatures resurrected from old DNA.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
  • That was a journey nearly like designing the creatures.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2025
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“Bird.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bird. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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