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hooted

verb

past tense of hoot

as in shouted

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Leon Murray, a passenger on the ferry, told local news outlet Ignite News that about four hours after leaving Georgetown, someone shouted that the boat was sinking.

— Reuters, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Frank Micelotta / Disney via Getty Images During his first acceptance speech, Brunson shouted out his family before thanking his coaches and ⁠teammates.

— Reuters, NBC news, 16 July 2026

Definition of shouted

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The crowd exploded with every tackle and shot, jeered at every foul whistled against El Tri.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
When early goals by both teams were denied by offside calls, the aggrieved fans jeered and whistled — the equivalent of Chiefs fans booing pass interference against their guy.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026

Definition of jeered

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At Daytona International Speedway more than 70,000 persons whooped, hollered and slugged down beer watching Cale Yarborough win the Firecracker 400 automobile race.

— Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026
As the market opened for business and hummed and hollered across the league Tuesday, the Canucks and their first-year management team remained on the sidelines.

— Thomas Drance, New York Times, 24 June 2026

Definition of hollered

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Dundon’s move was widely criticized — and ridiculed — after the Hurricanes on Thursday posted a picture of the engravings on social media.

— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
Not too shabby for a man who was roundly ridiculed for his defection from LaLiga in 2007.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of ridiculed

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These two characters have maybe two minutes of screentime between them, and yet a certain portion of the internet, and Elon Musk, have raged, gnashed teeth and howled to the wind about the way this denigrates a Greek classic.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
All Balogun playing did was make the Americans seem like bullies who just lost the fight as everyone else howled laughter.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026

Definition of howled

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Jewish and non-Jewish writers have been insulted and doxxed, have been called terrorists and antisemitic.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
Outside, the guards were often genial and chatty; inside, visitors were treated as objects of suspicion, barked at and insulted.

— Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Definition of insulted

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Massive amounts of rocks and soil roared down a slope and buried more than 10 residential buildings early Friday in Pengshui County on the outskirts of Chongqing.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
When Sam Kerr sprinted onto the Citi Field pitch in her official return to the NWSL on Wednesday night, the sellout crowd of 42,175 fans in New York City roared.

— Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 16 July 2026

Definition of roared

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Though much derided in advance, this expansion of the rubric did mean that Cabo Verde swam into our ken.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
In the latest salvo in the ongoing public negotiations between Major League Baseball and its players’ union, interim MLBPA chief Bruce Meyer derided a recent advertising campaign for the league’s salary cap proposal.

— Andy McCullough, New York Times, 14 July 2026

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