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Recent Examples of honk
The mourners waved in response to the occasional honk from passing motorists.
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Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
No Kings Day protests Saturday drew thousands of Elgin-area people carrying signs, chanting slogans and generating an endless stream of car honks in opposition to President Donald Trump and his administration.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
Noticing and tracking timing of annual events Phenology is the study of these natural phenomena and their annual cycles, from the first springtime peek of a groundhog to the last autumn honk of a goose.
—Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
Cheers erupt from the sidelines, and a vuvuzela sounds its long, gooselike honk.
—Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2025
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Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
No Kings Day protests Saturday drew thousands of Elgin-area people carrying signs, chanting slogans and generating an endless stream of car honks in opposition to President Donald Trump and his administration.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
Noticing and tracking timing of annual events Phenology is the study of these natural phenomena and their annual cycles, from the first springtime peek of a groundhog to the last autumn honk of a goose.
—Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
Cheers erupt from the sidelines, and a vuvuzela sounds its long, gooselike honk.
—Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for honk
Noun
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Native to North America, eastern screech-owls are mostly gray, reddish-brown or brown with yellow eyes, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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This causes a blast of high-energy radiation called a gamma-ray burst (GRB), a final screech of gravitational waves, and sends out a spray of neutron-rich matter, which allows a process to occur that generates very heavy but unstable elements.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The pair began to exchange words early in the second half, cracking the type of crooked smiles that hardly concealed the competitiveness driving both players to chirp and ridicule and needle one another on both ends of the court.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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Stephanie says, between a bark and a chirp.—
Gerald Witt,
AJC.com,
1 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In response, the paddlers near the front of the canoe momentarily pause their paddling and squeal as the sea lion splashes them.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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These threatened and endangered species are gentle, curious, and squeal-inducing levels of adorable, making a rare sighting all the more special and memorable.—
Joey Skladany,
Southern Living,
21 May 2026
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He was missed — especially vocally — since Gill’s angelic voice does not, in any way shape or form, resemble Walsh’s charmingly out-of-pitch squawk-talk style.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
25 Jan. 2026
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Toy keyboard plinks and saxophone squawks spiral over a booming racket of drums in the ether, slyly threatening to collapse, like an elaborate plate-spinning act.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026
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Mar works with meat the way Miles Davis worked with a trumpet, or Shohei Ohtani works with a baseball.—
Tony Sachs,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Aamir Bhiyani’s trumpet enters only halfway through, occupying a higher frequency range to cut through the dense percussive spiral.—
Arman Khan,
Pitchfork,
1 June 2026
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Fudd got a loud roar of applause upon being introduced and seemingly played with a spark, starting the game off aggressively in the first half.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 May 2026
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As Tottenham’s Italian head coach turned towards the crowd and let out a roar of sheer jubilation, substitute goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario jumped on his back.—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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Others reported a persistent squeak.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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The only sound coming from the Dodger Stadium visitors’ clubhouse Wednesday night was the squeak of a laundry cart.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In Threes, builds its sentences from splats, crashes, clucks, clinks, whooshes, and thuds.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
20 Apr. 2026
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On a recent Saturday, visitors swelter under the sun in a long line stretching into the dirt parking lot and swap rumors as passing chickens cluck at their ankles.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
18 Apr. 2026
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“Honk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honk. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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