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adjective

as in muttered

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verb

past tense of drawl
as in said
to speak slowly with vowel sounds that are longer than usual He drawled his name in a Southern accent.

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drawled
  1. muttered
  2. said
  3. shouted
  4. uttered
  5. murmured
  6. whispered
  7. breathed
  8. sounded
Adjective
  • Often made by anonymous rappers and producers with a monkish dedication to their craft, this isn’t rap for the live show but for the headphones, music where every muttered word and barely-there snare matters.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026
Definition of muttered
Verb
  • Abraham Zavala, a community activist and rapid responder, said that the ICE agents maced him and others in the crowd.
    — Lauren Pozen, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
  • The ship will be joining the hundreds of other artificial reefs in the northern waters of the Gulf, including former ships and concrete structures, said county spokesman Nick Tomecek.
    — Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of said
Adjective
  • Now, the sequence is more likely to end in shouted abuse and maybe a scuffle, the video shot on phones and streamed — sometimes live — on platforms like Kick or Facebook.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
  • This blend of styles is not only about presenting contrasts—clean versus shouted vocals, melodic versus dissonant riffs, headbanging versus moshing—but also preserving the murky in-between that only elevates the extreme.
    — Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 7 Jan. 2026
Definition of shouted
Verb
  • All of which is to say, some of the ’90s slang collected by the students at UCLA may very well have been uttered by Marymount students.
    — Jonathan Van Meter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Nothing was uttered on today’s call in the specific realm of talent relationships about former CCO Bajaria.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of uttered
Adjective
  • No photograph could catch the smell drifting from the nearby military barracks and Indian camps; capture the murmured swirl of French, English, Arapaho, and Lakota; or let a viewer feel the colliding anxieties and expectations that hung heavy over negotiations like this.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Definition of murmured
Verb
  • That includes administration officials who are occasionally whispered about as harboring presidential ambitions, like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Instead, this anxiety whispered, quietly and convincingly, within me.
    — Nickademus de la Rosa, Time, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of whispered
Adjective
  • His wraparound, tight-quarters assist on a Keshad Johnson dunk in the second half breathed fire into the lungs of the home crowd.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
Definition of breathed
Verb
  • Since virtually every news publisher has a Facebook page, Nieman Lab sounded the alarm that Meta could potentially avoid millions in licensing fees if the TOS update happened as planned.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Altogether, the Democrats sounded moderate, sober and even friendly.
    — Patricia Murphy, AJC.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of sounded
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