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Recent Examples of mew
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.
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Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 May 2025
The private stone mews had over the years been home to the composer Cole Porter and the musician Lenny Kravitz.
—Vivian Marino, New York Times, 2 May 2025
He is survived by his family, a collection of trophy big-game mounts, and generations of bulls in Colorado’s West Elk Wilderness who knew him by bugle, chuckle, and mew.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025
Six months later the ones that got it right would be living in their own mews houses in Pimlico and looking fifteen years younger.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
The neo-classical residence, in addition to a mews house on nearby Kinnerton Street, was sold by Fairway Capital to an unidentified U.K. buyer.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2025
Gorgeous — there’s no way around it — with beamed ceilings, hardwoods throughout, half a block from the Washington Square mews …
$4,995, 1-bedroom: Charming prewar with good bones and a ridiculously small kitchen.
—Nora Deligter, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2025
And in news that mews, the movie Cats is leaving the site on Jan. 15.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 1 Jan. 2025
Additionally, lots of people are traveling and being in mew spaces, especially in legal states.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 May 2025
The private stone mews had over the years been home to the composer Cole Porter and the musician Lenny Kravitz.
—Vivian Marino, New York Times, 2 May 2025
He is survived by his family, a collection of trophy big-game mounts, and generations of bulls in Colorado’s West Elk Wilderness who knew him by bugle, chuckle, and mew.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025
Six months later the ones that got it right would be living in their own mews houses in Pimlico and looking fifteen years younger.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
The neo-classical residence, in addition to a mews house on nearby Kinnerton Street, was sold by Fairway Capital to an unidentified U.K. buyer.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2025
Gorgeous — there’s no way around it — with beamed ceilings, hardwoods throughout, half a block from the Washington Square mews …
$4,995, 1-bedroom: Charming prewar with good bones and a ridiculously small kitchen.
—Nora Deligter, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2025
And in news that mews, the movie Cats is leaving the site on Jan. 15.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 1 Jan. 2025
Additionally, lots of people are traveling and being in mew spaces, especially in legal states.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mew
Noun
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The two then exchange words, or meows, before Mici decides to head elsewhere.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 May 2025
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With 80-plus looks and a Lana Del Rey soundtrack, the rest of the show was the cat’s meow.—
Rhonda Richford,
WWD,
9 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Drivers build lives around parking: the work shifts altered to align with the alternate-side-rotation hours, the keys always in the pocket, the Pavlovian alertness at the chirp of an unlocking car.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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From its facial expressions to its distinctive chirp, the creature is wreathed in a kind of nostalgia that Eighties kids will remember from those early days trolling the VHS rack at their local Blockbuster.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But their eggs and hatchlings can get crushed by tractors; they’re also being eaten by foxes, crows and sheep.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Apr. 2025
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The occasional caw of a crow, the chickadee-dee-dee of a chickadee, the big song of the little Carolina wren that now stays on our Pennsylvania farm all winter.—
Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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The show is thrilling as a sensory experience, humming with sinister percussive beats and the occasional muffled animal squawk in the distance.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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For thousands of years, the native people of the Andes have made the inner bark of trumpet trees into a medicinal tea that is useful in fighting infections, shrinking tumors, numbing aches and pains, and strengthening the autoimmune system in general.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
10 May 2025
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Vaughn points out a telltale sign of tree damage: The bark is coming off.—
Nicole Sours Larson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 May 2025
Noun
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But their magnum opus was 1978’s Dub Housing, where Thomas shows off his collection of animal noises, grunts, yelps, and screeches, up to his neck in industrial synth-and-guitar factory noise.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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His grandson toddled over, climbed into his lap, accepted a kiss with a screech of delight, and scooted off again.—
Ben Ehrenreich,
Harpers Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In the video, Shona—a Rhodesian ridgeback—sits in the back seat, letting out an intense yowl and staring fixedly out the window at something her owner couldn't see.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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Yes, that would be Post Malone, who convincingly simulated Kurt Cobain’s phlegmy yowls, rocking the mic as Dave Grohl, Pat Smear and Krist Novoselic thrashed and crashed around him.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
Noun
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As the birds practiced, their initial random squeaks gradually turned into melodies that closely matched their parents’ songs.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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And studies have shown that mice carrying human FOXP2 genes also make strange squeaks.—
Carl Zimmer,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Mew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mew. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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