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Recent Examples of laugher
There was a ripple of audience laugher during the buildup, when a member of the troupe wearing a top hat performed elaborate stretches as though limbering up for a marathon.
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Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
The path to improve from that 9-1 aggregate laugher was bound to require reinforcement from within the league.
—Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Their other two drives ended in the interceptions that essentially turned the game from a close contest into a laugher.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 10 Feb. 2025
The Bulls watched the Warriors put on an epic performance in a 132-111 win, erasing a 24-point third-quarter deficit and turning it into a laugher.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
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Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
The path to improve from that 9-1 aggregate laugher was bound to require reinforcement from within the league.
—Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Their other two drives ended in the interceptions that essentially turned the game from a close contest into a laugher.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 10 Feb. 2025
The Bulls watched the Warriors put on an epic performance in a 132-111 win, erasing a 24-point third-quarter deficit and turning it into a laugher.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laugher
Noun
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Somewhat surprisingly, the series didn’t feature any true blowouts.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Sure, there are the early wakeups, the diaper blowouts and the tantrums on the one hand.—
Ruthie Ackerman,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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Save for outlier performances such as what Cleveland’s Ty Jerome did to the Heat in Sunday night’s Game 1 romp and what Davion Mitchell has done in his blaze of glory the past few weeks for the Heat, the reality is that of the top seven players in this series, the Heat might only have two.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Apr. 2025
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The league may be a Liverpool romp, but a Champions League spot is in Forest’s grasp.—
Sam Settleman,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Perez was an extra-bases machine in the Royals’ doubleheader sweep of the Rockies at Kauffman Stadium.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2025
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On Wednesday, the UFC's brass decided to cut ties with Alexander and three others in the latest roster sweep.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Solid state and made without flammable materials, the little nuclear batteries might be safer than lithium-ion batteries, which are prone to thermal runaway, venting, and explosion.—
Joe Salas,
New Atlas,
26 Mar. 2025
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Paul Hughes and Usman Nurmagomedov threw down in what could be the runaway for Fight of the Year.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
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Wildfires can also cause significant rock fall, erosion, and even landslides.—
Hannah Provost,
Outside Online,
26 Apr. 2025
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Mark Carney's Liberal Party is predicted to win this week's general election in Canada, but is unlikely to win a landslide, according to recent polling.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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His account begins in the Spanish colonial period, when Spaniards and other Europeans debated the philosophical underpinnings of conquest and slavery, setting in motion an ideological battle between humanism and barbarism which, Grandin thinks, continues to this day.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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Seemingly spurred on by a recent Bollywood movie’s portrayal of Aurangzeb’s violent conquests against a revered Hindu king, the violence led to dozens of injuries and arrests, prompting Nagpur authorities to impose a curfew.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Putin announced the ceasefire to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies in World War Two.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Democrats, unable either to diagnose or to admit to their own failings, measured their victories in the meekest of triumphs, and seemed to have lost all sense of purpose, direction, and proportion.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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For months, the miniature dachshund eluded capture after disappearing during a family camping trip on Kangaroo Island, located off the coast of South Australia.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Apr. 2025
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Raw capture with the mechanical shutter, plus 15fps or 30fps JPG drive with a pre-capture mode using the fully electronic shutter.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Laugher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laugher. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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