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also miaow
as in yowl
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Recent Examples of meow
Peanut reportedly enjoyed his time at the bar, interacting with guests and earning the nickname Screech for his distinctive meow.
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Michael Nied, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Screenshots from an August 16 TikTok video of a woman discovering kittens after hearing meows coming from inside the ceiling.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
Sometimes when his mouth opens in a meow, little to no sound comes out.
—Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
This sweet 8-year-old tabby girl has a soft heart, a soft voice, and a gentle meow to go with it.
—Trish Stinger, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025
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Michael Nied, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Screenshots from an August 16 TikTok video of a woman discovering kittens after hearing meows coming from inside the ceiling.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
Sometimes when his mouth opens in a meow, little to no sound comes out.
—Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
This sweet 8-year-old tabby girl has a soft heart, a soft voice, and a gentle meow to go with it.
—Trish Stinger, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meow
Noun
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Squeeze the throttle pedal firmly to the carpet and the engine room answers with more forward thrust, the 9-speed kicking down several gears nearly instantly, and the car rushing onward with accompaniment of a classic but subtle straight six yowl.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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Liam sang most of the songs in his reedy yowl, all charisma with his hands pulled behind his back, head tilted up toward the sky and a parka often inexplicably zipped all the way up to his chin.—
Paula Mejía,
Vulture,
5 July 2025
Noun
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Social media has greatly intensified this process; peep a scene like phonk, which devolved from ‘90s Memphis rap homage to a sewage stream of electronic beats to lift weights and mew to.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
4 June 2025
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The second-floor guest bedroom is accompanied by a contemporary marble bathroom, and the third floor is taken up by the primary suite, which encompasses a sizable dark-blue bedroom plus a separate sitting room/office with windows overlooking the mews.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
6 May 2025
Noun
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Now for other people whose crepe myrtles look like yours, black bark and white specks are classic signs of crepe myrtle scales.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
10 Sep. 2025
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Yohimbine, derived from plant roots or tree bark, is sometimes marketed as an energy- or libido-booster.—
Sam Manzella,
Flow Space,
10 Sep. 2025
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Today’s Wordle Etymology The word chirp comes from Middle English chirpen (also spelled chirpyn), which was an imitative verb formed to mimic the short, sharp sounds of small birds or insects.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Traffic caused a low hum alongside the chirp of a bird or the chitter of cicadas.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Aug. 2025
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For a while, the only sound in the room was the squeak of a marker on a whiteboard, as Imamura wrote out several potential plot points.—
Matt Alt,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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One of my only criticisms is how the interior is screwed together: more than a few squeaks and rattles came to light over choppy tarmac and mid-corner bumps and undulations.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
23 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Once upon a time the screech of the dial-up sound signaled our entry into a new realm in the form of the Internet.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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People chatter, kids laugh, seagulls screech and birds chirp.—
Zareen Syed,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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This caused crews to declare an emergency squawk 7700 — an international distress code.—
Colson Thayer,
People.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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The animals use complex clicks, squawks and whistles to call out to each other, fight and attract a mate.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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How moo moo came to be be The Facebook group and the resulting moo moo movement began with a conversation between Huckins and a friend, according to both women.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Meow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meow. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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