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Your problem is that you were raised on fantasies of blatting muscle cars and Bueller-esque Ferrari Daytonas, and don’t know how to find something fun, affordable, and unexpected.—Brett Berk, GQ, 26 June 2017
Traditionally, the upside down American flag signals distress, and that was the mood expressed as speakers shouted, cried and chanted with the crowd of around 100 people.
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Harley Walls,
Arkansas Online,
17 May 2025
In a separate post, Cabrera shouted out some teammates who came and visited him in the hospital overnight.
But their magnum opus was 1978’s Dub Housing, where Thomas shows off his collection of animal noises, grunts, yelps, and screeches, up to his neck in industrial synth-and-guitar factory noise.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
His grandson toddled over, climbed into his lap, accepted a kiss with a screech of delight, and scooted off again.
Roki Sasaki would lift his left leg almost to his head, stretch far down the front side of the mound, and let out a grunt as a blur of white leather came screaming from his hand.
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Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
Then, the researchers performed a statistical analysis of specific two-call combinations — such as a grunt followed by a bark — that were documented in multiple animals.
Because the cardinals are sequestered during a conclave, black or white smoke is used to represent the cardinals' decisions for the day, bellowing from a Sistine Chapel chimney.
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Greta Cross,
USA Today,
8 May 2025
The energy at the midnight Cannes screening was particularly electric, with the crowd screaming and bellowing before the film had even begun.
This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a goat with a plaintive bleat, a menagerie of wild animals and, at one point, a school of glowing fish.
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Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
Moments later, the bear rushes in, bites the fawn in the back, and violently shakes it as the fawn lets out piercing bleats.
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