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hooting

verb

present participle of hoot

as in shouting

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as in jeering

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Relief pitcher Caleb Ferguson was not happy, shouting obscenities at the umpire and ripping him for his appearance.

— Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
Chappell likens it to a room shouting at you—too many patterns can look turbulent rather than playful, bold, and curated.

— Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2026

Definition of shouting

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Those jeering fans quickly had plenty to celebrate, as Austria players surrounded and jumped on their last-gasp goalscorer.

— Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 28 June 2026
Graduates boo speakers for mentioning AI At multiple college graduation ceremonies around the country, graduates and audience members were seen booing and jeering speeches.

— Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 21 June 2026

Definition of jeering

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More than 40,000 patrons crammed into Wrigley Field and the Cubs fans in the crowd were hooting and hollering after their team took a 5-0 lead through six innings Saturday, following a 16-2 win on Friday.

— Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
Timothée Chalamet exited through the same tunnel and was also hooting and hollering with his fellow Knicks fans.

— Tim Rohan, NBC news, 11 June 2026

Definition of hollering

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For example, 'Blazing Saddles' and 'All in the Family' confronted bigotry by ridiculing prejudice.

— Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Speaking of which, when news broke Friday that much of the team’s equipment had been stolen, there was a nearly instantaneous social media ridiculing of the city.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 15 June 2026

Definition of ridiculing

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When giant hailstones start falling, or howling winter winds threaten to tear solar panels from the roof, the unprotected modules can do nothing but take the beating.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 July 2026
For hours every day, the husky, howling piteously, would try in vain to leap the walls of his prison.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

Definition of howling

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Iran's government denied involvement in the 2022 stabbing, but its Foreign Ministry's then-spokesperson suggested Rushdie invited trouble by insulting Islam.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
In its portrayal of cross-gender relations, the series is consistently cruel to women, insulting to men, empathetic toward nobody and cynical about everything.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026

Definition of insulting

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Usually, a SpaceX test flight of a brand new spacecraft is accompanied with bellowing fanfare.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 24 June 2026
After the game, while Johnson was trying to explain the madness that had consumed his team, his answers were barely audible over the celebrity fan contingent bellowing their way out of the arena.

— Kyle Wagner, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026

Definition of bellowing

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After years of deriding Mexican inaction on security, the United States appears to have found a willing partner.

— Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
Still, even such deployments have drawn scrutiny, with some on social media criticizing the film’s AI usage and deriding the movie’s quality.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 2 July 2026

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