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Recent Examples of bray
James Powel, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
The cool, quiet spring air is punctuated only by Kasbah’s small pack of mules braying nearby, and the tinkling of the riad’s fountain.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025
Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Shortly after the New Year's ball drops (only once) in New York City, the Zohran Mamdani era will begin in the Big Apple and the political horses will be braying at the gates to start the 2026 midterm election season in earnest.
—James Powel, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
The cool, quiet spring air is punctuated only by Kasbah’s small pack of mules braying nearby, and the tinkling of the riad’s fountain.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
My father mistakes it for the verb to bray, like a donkey.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bray
Verb
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By modern standards, nearly everyone on earth lived lives of grinding, unthinkable poverty.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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Each year, as the weather improves, Russia has moved its grinding war of attrition up a gear.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Late that afternoon, Flint was sitting quietly against his tree and using a Primos can call to make bleats.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
3 Dec. 2025
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His tent grows dim, and sheep bleat for water outside.—
Arsalan Bukhari,
Christian Science Monitor,
12 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Earlier, heavy snow pounded the Northeast and Nebraska saw its worst wildfires ever.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
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Everybody is pounding their chest about the Lakers.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Native to North America, eastern screech-owls are mostly gray, reddish-brown or brown with yellow eyes, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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This causes a blast of high-energy radiation called a gamma-ray burst (GRB), a final screech of gravitational waves, and sends out a spray of neutron-rich matter, which allows a process to occur that generates very heavy but unstable elements.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Verb
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There's been no sign of any organized opposition since the war began, after Iranian authorities crushed mass protests in January.—
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS,
Arkansas Online,
20 Mar. 2026
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When processes break down—whether because billionaires operate above the law, presidents govern by fiat, or monopolies crush competition—that belief evaporates.—
Anthony Scaramucci,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Junior Heifers One building was filled with the almost deafening hum of high-power hair dryers and the occasional moo.—
Chris Torres,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Jan. 2026
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How moo moo came to be be The Facebook group and the resulting moo moo movement began with a conversation between Huckins and a friend, according to both women.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Tim Brinkhof Million Stories Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
25 Mar. 2026
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Mikael Granlund scored twice, Alex Killorn had a goal and an assist, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-3 on Thursday night.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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He was missed — especially vocally — since Gill’s angelic voice does not, in any way shape or form, resemble Walsh’s charmingly out-of-pitch squawk-talk style.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
25 Jan. 2026
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Toy keyboard plinks and saxophone squawks spiral over a booming racket of drums in the ether, slyly threatening to collapse, like an elaborate plate-spinning act.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Bray.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bray. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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