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croaking

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verb

present participle of croak
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Recent Examples of croaking
Verb
Karaoke on Ambience mainly consists of elderly monk-like men croaking out album tracks by Black Sabbath, and grey haired women wailing out ABBA songs. David Greig september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for croaking
Adjective
  • Give Palestine your voice, and when your voice goes hoarse, hang your flags, wear your keffiyeh.
    Thomas Smith, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And when your voice goes hoarse, hang your flags, wear your keffiyeh.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In April, 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise, a Haitian, died while being held at GEO’s Pompano Beach facility after complaining of chest pains.
    Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • My question is how to get the most out of this reunion without sitting around rehashing old issues/resentments and complaining about our parents, especially our mother.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The thriller series was left on a cliffhanger, with President Rayburn (Michael McKean) dying at the end of season two.
    Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Women who miss their first screening appointment for breast cancer could have a 40% higher long-term risk of dying from the disease, according to a new study.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Most of the strikes occur in the summer, killing 20 people each year, according to the NWS.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The emergency services Loeb was hearing were headed to the nearby Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, where an assailant rammed a car into people before stabbing several members of the community, killing two.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The session proceeded without a live video-feed of the 22-year-old defendant charged with murdering the conservative influencer at a Utah college campus on September 10, alongside counts of felony discharge of a firearm, obstruction, and witness tampering.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Then, in 2024, Gates and Richard James Romano were both charged with murdering Alliauna Green, a rising Oakland rapper who used the stage name Tan DaGod.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This pays off to some extent because Day-Lewis is such a mesmerizing presence, Ray’s gruff manner and terse communications hinting at dark mysteries to be revealed.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Panday plays a convincingly gruff tortured artist alongside Padda’s struggling ingenue, and most of the screen time is devoted to their pairing instead of introducing tertiary excess.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Now, Darvish will get to pitch in front of a stadium of screaming, hopeful, nervous Cubs fans.
    Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There’s screaming electric guitar AND an orchestra.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With less money being invested by record labels into touring, that has created a top-heavy artist hierarchy, with the rich getting richer and the poor and middle class falling by the wayside.
    Roy Trakin, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The group acknowledged a need to modernize the government's data gathering processes, which have been hampered by falling survey response rates.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Croaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/croaking. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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