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Recent Examples of aah
Noun
Boil peas, dress with an herbal vinaigrette, and ooh and aah over all the flavor.—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 7 May 2026 During meteor showers, Earthlings ooh and aah over bits of rock that have broken off comets or asteroids as the travel around the sun.—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
Set up a chair and blanket just before sunset, and join the chorus of Portlanders oohing and aahing.—Brianna Crane, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024 There was quite a bit of oohing and aahing at the Hotel Thermal in 2023 when the Karlovy Vary film festival opening ceremony started with a curtain being raised and women becoming visible.—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for aah
Counter-protesters showed up toward the end and shouted toward the Hernandez supporters and the two sides exchanged some words before dispersing.
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Marisa Ingemi,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
Upon accepting his Vanguard Award from the third annual Critics Choice Association‘s Celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema & Television last night, Big Mistakes co-creator Dan Levy took a moment to shout out Canadian production for being a step ahead.
Bernardo Silva, possibly Guardiola’s favourite ever player according to some close to him, is still known as ‘Bernardiki’ around the dressing room, even among new players, because that is what Guardiola called him two years ago, during one of his regularly strange training-session exclamations.
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Sam Lee,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
Stafford bravely let our first newspaper prototype go, and there was a collective sigh of relief and joyous exclamation when our kite flew.
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Liz Goodwin The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
25 May 2026
The Amazon subsidiary behind Masters of the Universe is called Regal Leo UK Productions in a nod to He-Man's royal lineage and MGM's roaring lion logo.