caw

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Noun
  • My crow's feet are nearly gone.
    Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • Days later, a dead American crow collected in East Sacramento tested positive for the virus.
    Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Air traffic control at Heathrow cleared the flight for a priority return after the pilots issued a squawk 7700 — the code for a general emergency.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Equally notable throughout the game was the angry screech, reserved for whenever the Czech Republic players had the ball — or worse — were given a free kick.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • Guests range from ordinary commuters to figures like Cate Blanchett and Julian Casablancas, all subject to the same fluorescent lighting and ambient subway screech.
    Arushi Jacob, Variety, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • The pair began to exchange words early in the second half, cracking the type of crooked smiles that hardly concealed the competitiveness driving both players to chirp and ridicule and needle one another on both ends of the court.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Stephanie says, between a bark and a chirp.
    Gerald Witt, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Don’t forget my sister’s advice: Ample space to run, roam, and cluck freely is the key to keeping happy, healthy chickens that lay daily.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2026
  • In Threes, builds its sentences from splats, crashes, clucks, clinks, whooshes, and thuds.
    Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
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
  • Smoke, salt, pepper and bark do the work.
    Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 26 June 2026
  • Loved for its beautiful summer flowers and attractive bark, crepe myrtle displays superb heat tolerance and has an adaptable root system that withstands a range of growing conditions.
    Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Bill Gates and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman cackle as Capitol police drag the man away.
    Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
  • When Pirog played a flashy line, which was often, Vile let out a cackle, an impish, cowpoke whoopee ti-yi-yo.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
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“Caw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caw. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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