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Recent Examples of mew
The picture, showing Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre (then Roberts) at what was said to be Ghislaine Maxwell’s mews house in London, has dogged Andrew ever since it was first published.
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Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 13 Oct. 2025
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
Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 13 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mew
Noun
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The cafe will also offer special happy meow-er drink prices.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
16 Mar. 2026
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This friendly, vocal lady will happily greet you with sweet little meows and is always on the lookout for the perfect opportunity to curl up in your lap.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The pair began to exchange words early in the second half, cracking the type of crooked smiles that hardly concealed the competitiveness driving both players to chirp and ridicule and needle one another on both ends of the court.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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Stephanie says, between a bark and a chirp.—
Gerald Witt,
AJC.com,
1 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Hyaluronic acid and collagen help visibly hydrate and plump skin, smoothing the appearance of lines, crow’s feet and crepey texture for a flawless makeup look.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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In recent days, video footage of Father Najib Amil, a Maronite Catholic priest in the mostly Christian village of Rmeich, Lebanon — about a mile, as the crow flies, from the Israeli border — has gone viral on social media.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The spiders’ white egg sacs, usually laid between October and November, are often attached to leaves, tree bark and flat structures and contain 400 to 500 eggs, according to Jorowatch.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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Look for areas of green and moisture under the bark to determine what might be alive.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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He was missed — especially vocally — since Gill’s angelic voice does not, in any way shape or form, resemble Walsh’s charmingly out-of-pitch squawk-talk style.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
25 Jan. 2026
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Toy keyboard plinks and saxophone squawks spiral over a booming racket of drums in the ether, slyly threatening to collapse, like an elaborate plate-spinning act.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Native to North America, eastern screech-owls are mostly gray, reddish-brown or brown with yellow eyes, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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This causes a blast of high-energy radiation called a gamma-ray burst (GRB), a final screech of gravitational waves, and sends out a spray of neutron-rich matter, which allows a process to occur that generates very heavy but unstable elements.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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On the floor, hundreds of people convulse to Blanco Teta’s ravenous yowls and monster-truck basslines off their July album La debacle de las divas.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
18 Feb. 2026
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Now fans can get a closer look at the man behind the pitch-perfect yowl, the pencil mustache and the flawless pompadour.—
Theater Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Junior Heifers One building was filled with the almost deafening hum of high-power hair dryers and the occasional moo.—
Chris Torres,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Jan. 2026
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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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“Mew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mew. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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