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Recent Examples of exclamation
One of the headiest things about Adult Braces is how West’s prose style was pickled in the mid-2010s, so her use of caps lock and exclamation marks acted on me as a powerful Proustian madeleine.
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Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2026
Well, Tre White put an exclamation-point dunk through the hoop with 13 seconds left.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2026
Similarly, his students do not end texts with a period, claiming that no punctuation or an exclamation mark shows enthusiasm.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2026
For Mater Dei Catholic, Saturday’s win serves as an exclamation mark on what has been a season of notable growth for the program.
—Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
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Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2026
Well, Tre White put an exclamation-point dunk through the hoop with 13 seconds left.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2026
Similarly, his students do not end texts with a period, claiming that no punctuation or an exclamation mark shows enthusiasm.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2026
For Mater Dei Catholic, Saturday’s win serves as an exclamation mark on what has been a season of notable growth for the program.
—Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exclamation
Noun
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In an interview earlier in March with the Yale Alumni Association, Chun admitted to making a mistake that made her cry in her first year as Yale AD.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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Gabriela is not used to seeing her mother get emotional, but this made her cry.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In response to shouts for everyone to get down, one administration official at a media table crawled under it, with just her high heels poking out.—
Calvin Woodward,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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Outside, a kid spots the bus and shouts.—
Emmanuel Igunza,
NPR,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Audience members quickly realized the interjection wasn’t part of the session and called for security to remove him.—
Deborah Sengupta Stith,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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Two people were arrested for disrupting the meeting with anti-CoreCivic interjections.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Fans have long gravitated toward Swift's dramatic, scream-worthy bridges.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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This isn’t a scream from some hound of love (though dogs do bark on the recording).—
New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Is such an existential shriek into the abyss, all while living in a society suffused by mind-numbing grief and nationalism, worth subjecting yourself to?—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2026
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Lee’s introduction of Liu sparked shrieks, mostly among young students from the nearby Oakland School for the Arts, which Liu also attended for one semester.—
Ron Kroichick,
San Francisco Chronicle,
12 Mar. 2026
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The very much unrated film — showing unsimulated full penetration and ejaculation — streamed from 2017 until well into 2020.—
Gustavo Turner,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2026
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Millions of sperm can remain in the tubes, typically requiring about 20 to 30 ejaculations to clear.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Exclamation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclamation. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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