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Recent Examples of meow
The video, liked 7.3 million times, first shows ginger cat Boo, sitting on the floor and letting out a meow—then pans to Motnik, who perfectly mimics the sound on the guitar.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
The first meow is rather standard and calm, and the second one is a bit more urgent-sounding.
—Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
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
The little meow belonged to Sunny-Loo, who must've hidden deep inside the Hide-a-Bed sofa when the Hansons' movers arrived and ended up stuck in the piece of furniture.
—Kelli Bender, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
The first meow is rather standard and calm, and the second one is a bit more urgent-sounding.
—Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
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
The little meow belonged to Sunny-Loo, who must've hidden deep inside the Hide-a-Bed sofa when the Hansons' movers arrived and ended up stuck in the piece of furniture.
—Kelli Bender, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meow
Noun
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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
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Some hockey teams have incorporated sound effects into their celebratory goal-horn noise—a cannon blast for the Columbus Blue Jackets, a cat’s yowl for the Florida Panthers.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
2 June 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 three-story, brick house is in the middle of a tiny historic mews in the Murray Hill neighborhood.—
Vivian Marino,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
Noun
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To keep the soil moist and cool, a mulch of pine bark or pine straw is helpful.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 July 2025
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While there are about 2,800 species of scorpions, there is only one in the U.S. that's dangerous to humans, according to the University of Arizona Health Sciences: the Arizona bark scorpion.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
6 July 2025
Noun
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Similarly to smoke detectors, a carbon monoxide detector will produce a quiet chirp when the battery is low.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 June 2025
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Immediately after being traded and added to the team’s group chat, the chirps started flying. Bennett, who knocked Marchand out of a couple games of the playoffs last year with a controversial hit, was the first victim.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2025
Noun
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The footage shows the beautiful black cat not with a typical meow, but with a series of gentle squeaks.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 June 2025
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George's solo culminated in a symphony of squeaks before MJ Lenderman returned to the stage for a two-song encore.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
Noun
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The screech of an infected is the first sign of trouble.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
19 May 2025
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The constant clang of metal and the screech of drills suggest the sort of work underway at a warehouse-turned-workshop in this Ukrainian city about 300 kilometers (180 miles) east of Kyiv.—
Dominique Soguel,
Christian Science Monitor,
17 June 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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TikTok and Instagram Reels are rife with clips of two women sitting in a pink or beige studio and, in TikTok terms, having a yap about seemingly inconsequential matters.—
Kyndall Cunningham,
Vox,
10 Apr. 2025
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Foxes use a variety of calls, including barks, howls, yaps, and growls.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Meow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meow. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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