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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guffawing
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On the chaise side of the sectional, Fiona and Izzy were giggling under a blanket, playing a makeover game on Fiona’s phone.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026 -
McLarty and Walker shift from depressive introspection to giggling reminiscences.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
4 May 2026
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Baffert watched it all on his laptop from California, chuckling as the board showing the horse’s price flaked out momentarily.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
1 May 2026
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Flying cows, fiddle-playing cats, and chuckling retrievers inhabit the space between ornate columns.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
22 Apr. 2026
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The next morning, the pair are chatting and laughing.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
12 May 2026
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Sometimes laughing is better than crying.—
Lexi Lane,
PEOPLE,
9 May 2026
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But after the boy’s friends started snickering, Gramps shifted to a more succinct potato reference.—
Tyler Estep,
AJC.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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But then, both songs get the film’s most showstopping presentations, so snickering evidently wasn’t the goal.—
Bob Strauss,
San Francisco Chronicle,
19 Dec. 2025
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The nightingale flew around the fox’s head, the two of them chortling in their own indiscernible ways.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
19 Nov. 2025
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Against all of this allegedly heady stuff, the score—by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross—intentionally jars us from encroaching drowsiness with chortling woodwinds and shardlike piano chords that are the aural equivalent of jagged Plexiglass off-cuts.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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Earlier, Mitchell’s Avdotya has attacked him with a pillow, railing and cackling.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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There is more cackling when Jesus tries to explain Arteta’s latest motivational technique.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Guffawing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guffawing. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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