caw

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Noun
  • Police investigators were staking out the historic, 200-acre Mount Moriah Cemetery in southwest Philadelphia on Tuesday evening when their suspect finally emerged carrying a crow bar and a burlap bag.
    Gaya Gupta, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Across the canyon, flames leapt up the Paseo Miramar trail, still two miles away as the crow flies, but already too close to ignore.
    Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • However, after 40 minutes, the pilot turned back to Birmingham after issuing the 7700 squawk emergency code over the French coast, Daily Express reported.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
  • There are times when squawk is not used to communicate aircraft information, like during military operations.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 15 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • This not-quite-title song, which is nearly eight minutes long, is a sort of mini-suite, opening with a dog barking, giving way to an acoustic-guitar melody accompanying polyphonic vocals, then becoming electric and crashingly alive, until the relentless screech of a guitar drags you to the end.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
  • As the band blares, Georgia fans bark for the Dawgs and Alabama faithful screech Roll Tide.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 9 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The Chartreux is usually a silent cat, giving little chirps or small miaows when wanting attention.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • This includes meows, purrs and chirps—averaging about 4.3 meows in the first 100 seconds of greeting, compared to 1.8 for women.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • What the cluck is going on in Kate Beckinsale’s family?
    Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Here’s something for Hallmark fans to cluck about: the channel has set the return date for The Chicken Sisters.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The picture, showing Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre (then Roberts) at what was said to be Ghislaine Maxwell’s mews house in London, has dogged Andrew ever since it was first published.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Social media has greatly intensified this process; peep a scene like phonk, which devolved from ‘90s Memphis rap homage to a sewage stream of electronic beats to lift weights and mew to.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • The impressive North American tree, thriving in growing zones 4 through 8, is renowned for its unique gray bark that peels off in shaggy plates.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Dragon’s blood refers to the vivid red resin exuded by a handful of plant species when their bark, stems or leaves are damaged.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Nothing came without a cackle from Tammie.
    Brooke Blumberg, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Better yet, they were delivered with a wink from Jim's eye and the cackle of his great laugh.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 20 Jan. 2026
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“Caw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caw. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.

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