1
as in delighted
to feel or express joy or triumph
being the home of the new Super Bowl champs was the first thing that city residents had to crow about in a very long time
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2
as in boasted
to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess
the in-your-face crowing by some of the winning athletes at the Olympics was embarrassing
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Recent Examples of crowed
Nuuk, the territory’s capital city, is emblematic of those towns, featuring brightly colored houses crowed together between a jagged coastline and inland mountains.
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Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
While some in Kansas have crowed about poaching the team from Missouri, other residents are more critical of the deal’s generous terms for Chiefs ownership.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Jan. 2026
Google President Sean Downey also crowed about YouTube being the number one streamer for the last two years, per Nielsen.
—Peter White, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
And, oh yeah, he was just crowed PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive 2025.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
Extremely sexy soccer star (and recently crowed Sexiest Soccer Club Owner) David Beckham, a winner in 2015, suggested future SMA winners stay grounded.
—Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Roberts crowed from the stage at midfield at Dodger Stadium last week.
—Andy McCullough, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Trump crowed about the ruling in a post on Truth Social.
—Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
While some in Kansas have crowed about poaching the team from Missouri, other residents are more critical of the deal’s generous terms for Chiefs ownership.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Jan. 2026
Google President Sean Downey also crowed about YouTube being the number one streamer for the last two years, per Nielsen.
—Peter White, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
And, oh yeah, he was just crowed PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive 2025.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
Extremely sexy soccer star (and recently crowed Sexiest Soccer Club Owner) David Beckham, a winner in 2015, suggested future SMA winners stay grounded.
—Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Roberts crowed from the stage at midfield at Dodger Stadium last week.
—Andy McCullough, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Trump crowed about the ruling in a post on Truth Social.
—Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crowed
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Meanwhile, some 1,600 miles away in Abilene, the owner of Seven and One Books, Arlene Kasselman, also has been delighted with the response to the phone outside her store.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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In the mid-1980s, around the time The Goonies delighted moviegoers with its story of pirate treasure, the 39-year-old Cuban American archaeologist Roger Dooley was deep in a Byzantine Spanish archive, hunting for a treasure ship of his own.—
Julian Sancton,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Jan. 2026
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Homegrown rarities Clay Buchholz and Jon Lester headlined the ‘13 champions, but Boston’s most recent World Series squad in 2018 boasted a dazzling, but entirely outside rotation.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
22 Jan. 2026
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These number-less reveals are a lot different than what happened with season 1, where Amazon boasted that Fallout hit 65 million views in 16 days, then 100 million viewers by October 2024.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Putin has bragged that Oreshnik's multiple warheads plunge at rates of up to ten times the speed of sound and can't be intercepted, and that several of them used in a conventional strike could be as devastating as a nuclear attack.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Kimmel closed his monologue by taking the cognitive test that Trump has repeatedly bragged about acing.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
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Elon Musk exulted in swinging his chainsaw.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
5 Nov. 2025
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The duo exulted in success and strove to support a young family in a fickle industry.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Crowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crowed. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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