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Recent Examples of earful
Right now, any newspaper with an interest in staying urgent and relevant and alert is getting an earful of a fractious nation.
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Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
Upon hearing the truth, Kevin drags his son out of the container, gives him an earful of expletives, and zaps him with a taser baton.
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Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Anthem singers started getting earfuls at hockey games.
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Chris Jones,
The Atlantic,
6 Apr. 2025
Once a digitally daft chamber, today—after a summer of studying AI—most senators feel savvy enough on the topic to have a few earfuls of complaints for the giants of Silicon Valley.
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Matt Laslo,
WIRED,
13 Sep. 2023
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Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
Upon hearing the truth, Kevin drags his son out of the container, gives him an earful of expletives, and zaps him with a taser baton.
—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Anthem singers started getting earfuls at hockey games.
—
Chris Jones,
The Atlantic,
6 Apr. 2025
Once a digitally daft chamber, today—after a summer of studying AI—most senators feel savvy enough on the topic to have a few earfuls of complaints for the giants of Silicon Valley.
—
Matt Laslo,
WIRED,
13 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for earful
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Bass strategist Douglas Herman responded to Monday’s results by issuing a broadside against Raman.
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Yesterday, one of his previously closest allies, Health Secretary Wes Streeting, resigned with a blistering broadside.
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Following a barrage of teaser posts over the last couple of weeks, the ever-prolific pop singer has revealed that her official follow-up to 2022’s The Loneliest Time will be a 24-track double LP.
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The strike was part of an overnight barrage of 70 missiles and 611 drones, President Zelensky indicated.
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Another salvo of rekindled patriotic spirit, on the way to the hearts of three hundred and fifty million Americans, was downrange and inbound.
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That's the opening salvo from Andrea Riquier's story on the state of the nation's housing market.
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Iran’s military said the fusillade was a warning.
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Every stentorian chord became a hammer blow, flourishes intensified into fusillades, a tense pause into an apocalypse.
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Deep inside Uzbekistan's penalty area, Ronaldo struck a powerful right-footed volley into the net.
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Lopes notably threw himself in front of a Mikel Oyarzabal volley with just moments to go, a prime example of the back-four’s commitment to defending their goal.
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Minasian’s flurry of moves before and after the 2023 trade deadline seemed chaotic.
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Off a fantastic pass from Kylian Mbappé from the opposite side of the pitch, Ousmane Dembélé unleashed a quick flurry of dribble moves into the right side of the box before burying a goal.
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Minor hail damage to outdoor objects is possible.
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The most common uses of cloud seeding are to increase precipitation or suppress hail, usually by adding tiny particles of silver iodide, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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The sound of the cannonade continued without any break.
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Artillery cannonade from both sides is heard around the clock.
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“Earful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earful. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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