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verb

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Recent Examples of groan
Noun
The tightly wound tension is maintained also by Volker Bertelmann’s propulsive score, which starts with ominous juddering groans and keeps shapeshifting throughout. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025 Treat it as a sounding board for album names, tour titles and hook ideas… the stuff that would make your spouse or best friend groan. Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
Arthur groans, but there is affection in his protest. Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025 Yankees fans have moaned and groaned about Aaron Boone’s deployment of Williams in crucial situations this season, and it’s only exacerbated now that every game counts in the postseason race. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for groan
Recent Examples of Synonyms for groan
Noun
  • Her wails make Davina recall her own confinement, where she was treated similarly awfully and responded by cursing the women in the room.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • An ambulance siren wails past, coming up from the river.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Most of these are held in a tent, from which loud, ecstatic moans can be heard for seemingly miles around.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Out comes another moan, this one closer to a laugh as Brandon’s face flashes a smile.
    Scott Craven, AZCentral.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Click the video below to see a sweet brotherly reunion filled with the kind of hug that comes with happy tears and pure joy.
    Ronnie Li, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This test evaluates the quantity and quality of your tears to diagnose dry eye syndrome.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But that joy recently turned into constant crying.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Which is ironic considering that the smallest stations have typically avoided engaging with exactly the kind of national politics that have got the GOP crying bias.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • While conservatives have periodically questioned the need to fund public media throughout its decades, Berliner's essay provided a new rallying cry.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The dog's cries pierced people's hearts, and as of Thursday, the TikTok video reached over 278,000 views and 40,300 likes.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The venues shuttered in March 2020, at the onset of COVID, prompting public lamentations from filmmakers ranging from Barry Jenkins and Lulu Wang to Edgar Wright and Olivia Wilde.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025
  • So this isn’t a lamentation that the Giants didn’t trade these players, per se.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The wind’s howl filled my left ear and the music blasted from my speakers filled my right.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to the winners, the brewery will offer consolation prizes to participants with the best costume, the slowest race time and the best howl.
    Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Apologies and laments and longing are woven throughout the album, but the speaker doesn’t ask anything of anyone that comes across as especially loud.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Beristain’s lament may sound like a song of the past, but eight years later, that rhythm is returning.
    Lluvia Gaucin, IndyStar, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Groan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groan. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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