mew

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Recent Examples of mew 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 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 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 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 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mew
Noun
  • Peanut reportedly enjoyed his time at the bar, interacting with guests and earning the nickname Screech for his distinctive meow.
    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
Noun
  • 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
  • Traffic caused a low hum alongside the chirp of a bird or the chitter of cicadas.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Merlins do not build their own nests but instead move into old crow nests.
    Tom Langen, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The Love, Indus Freedom of Expression Line Limiter is a formula designed specifically for targeting fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes (aka crow’s feet), mouth, and on the forehead.
    Jessie Quinn, Flow Space, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This caused crews to declare an emergency squawk 7700 — an international distress code.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yohimbine, derived from plant roots or tree bark, is sometimes marketed as an energy- or libido-booster.
    Sam Manzella, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • People chatter, kids laugh, seagulls screech and birds chirp.
    Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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“Mew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mew. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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