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howlers

noun

plural of howler

as in screams

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as in blunders

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Noun

The screams at a Michigan bar in New York invoked Underwood’s name.

— Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
While the Silo 17 citizens are getting murdered en masse, Troy has the image switched to a thermal map and has the audio cut off, so that the people look like colored blobs — and so their screams go unheard.

— Noel Murray, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of screams

Noun

There were mighty blunders off the field too under Jarmond, including an email that went out to donors that came with an attachment revealing personal information and spending tallies of the department’s biggest donors.

— Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Common Mistakes When Cleaning Earbuds Take special care to avoid damaging your earbuds by avoiding these common blunders.

— Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of blunders

Noun

Food price spikes can also exacerbate grievances and lead to riots that destabilize governments; anger over hunger, for example, set the conditions for the Arab Spring protests.

— Anna Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026
In addition, the Iranian government has suppressed anti-government riots and protests with deadly force and arbitrary arrests and detention, according to human rights observers.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of riots

Noun

But those are only the flubs that Jeopardy judges catch and acknowledge during tapings.

— Louis Peitzman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 June 2026
In a recent Instagram post, the 56-year-old former TV journalist uploaded a montage of her past on-air flubs alongside a message about perseverance and living with dyslexia.

— Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026

Definition of flubs

Noun

Again, the things of life, the ups and downs, the laughs and the tears — this is Mike Leigh at his most humane and heartwarming in a film that seems to be about nothing really, but the universal truth of it all is about everything.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026
Having a bunch of huge favorites means one of them is about to see its entire hopeful offseason culminate in immediate disaster as everyone points and laughs.

— Jason Kirk, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of laughs

Noun

Midland—which also includes guitarist/vocalist Jess Carson and bassist/vocalist Cameron Duddy, along with a troupe of touring players—embrace the goofs.

— Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2026
Johnny Carson made fun of politicians, but mostly their public goofs, not their policies.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 May 2026

Definition of goofs

Noun

Church bells, owl hoots and sprinklers keeping the grass hydrated during this dry spell fill the space between the occasional motor trudging along a main road devoid of commotion.

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Ranging from the sound of emergency sirens and birds screeching to low grunts and guttural hoots, their vocalizations reverberate from a sanctuary in the hot, dry hills of the Santa Clarita Valley, north of Los Angeles.

— Jaimie Ding, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026

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