as in crying
to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress
the little girl was blubbing so uncontrollably that we couldn't understand what she was saying
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Shortly after the stool is thrown, her young daughter, who was nearby on the sofa during the fight, can be heard crying.—
Angela Yang,
NBC news,
29 Mar. 2026 -
Jamaica born About a hundred people gathered to lay Wilson to rest, singing, crying and laughing while remembering his kind heart, his hard work and his famous barbecue ribs and chicken wings.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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Liaw replied with a string of sobbing-face emojis, the indictment states, and then kept working with Chang and Sun, authorities say.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
22 Mar. 2026
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Body-cam footage, included at the end of Mormon Wives’s pilot episode, showed Paul on the front porch, sobbing and barely able to breathe.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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Chalamet knows how to give good cry, as previously established by the famous shot of him weeping into a fireplace over the closing credits of Call Me By Your Name.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2026
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Babs Osborne was now weeping quite loudly and her nose was running.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Blubbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blubbing. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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