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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
No more clacking away at a keyboard or glancing between screens—just a straightforward, focused conversation.
—James Lindsey, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
Instead, it is squeezed next to a gaming parlor that echoes with clacks from a foosball table.
—Nina Strochlic, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
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Verb
There on the round expanse of polished, inlaid pebble, dozens of men and women are mingling, spike heels clacking on the irregular surface, ordering drinks from tuxedoed bartenders, soaking up this dreamlike atmosphere.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
No more clacking away at a keyboard or glancing between screens—just a straightforward, focused conversation.
—James Lindsey, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
The clack of assault rifles being fired punctured the air.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
Instead, it is squeezed next to a gaming parlor that echoes with clacks from a foosball table.
—Nina Strochlic, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clack
Verb
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In Tottenham Hotspur’s 2-0 defeat by Fulham in March, the 26-year-old left his centre-back partner Ben Davies alone and tracked Raul Jimenez deep into Fulham territory before clattering into him on the touchline.—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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The seeds are loose and clatter around inside the pods, giving baptisia the name rattleweed, as children once used the seedpods as rattles.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The brutal stabbings rattled Moscow, a city of 25,000 people that hadn’t recorded a murder since 2015.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
15 May 2025
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But the winds of change in Colorado caused this particular branch in Blue to rattle and sway.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2025
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Matthew Impelli,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
19 May 2025
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“Clack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clack. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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