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Recent Examples of ooh
Umair Irfan, Vox, 14 May 2024
If your Valentine is the type to ooh and ahh over historical documents, History by Mail offers them a monthly delivery of a new document replicated by a graphic designer.
—Buy Side Staff, wsj.com, 10 Jan. 2024
Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2023
Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
People walked out of theaters stunned, oohing and aahing over the shocking ending.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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Interjection
Anticipating how this activity will ripple toward our home planet is an important task, not just so we Earthlings can get our cameras ready and ooh and aah at the nighttime colors; space weather can create problems for communication, navigation, and the power grid.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 14 May 2024
If your Valentine is the type to ooh and ahh over historical documents, History by Mail offers them a monthly delivery of a new document replicated by a graphic designer.
—Buy Side Staff, wsj.com, 10 Jan. 2024
Noun
The crowd ooh-ed and ahh-ed as athletes leapt from the tower’s many platforms in a performance to cap off the ceremony, including cliff diver Ellie Smith, Olympians Louganis and Sam Dorman, and children beginning their foray into the sport.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2023
Verb
Inside the planetarium, the students oohed and aahed, craning their necks and pointing as the sky rotated.
—Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
People walked out of theaters stunned, oohing and aahing over the shocking ending.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ooh
Verb
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Arriving via the gorgeous gardens of Grosvenor Square, my partner and I oohed and aahed at the imposing marble, opulent chandeliers and old-world glamour of the hotel lobby.Caroline Dolby, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Pringles Reveals New Chips That Don’t Come in a Can — Marking the Brand’s First Bagged Snack in More Than 15 Years Immediately upon popping the candies in our mouths, the testers oohed and aahed at the new flavors, particularly the bright blue raspberry.Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Biden has not answered reporters' shouted questions on the pardon while he's been in Angola.Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2024
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Our dinner options are greasy pizza or rubbery burgers, the undersides of the tables are speckled with wads of gum and the background noise is the shouting voices of children.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
Interjection
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And so the people recognizing you on the street just reinforce that — like hey, people are really watching this.Kate Hogan, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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And hey, who doesn't love a post-Thanksgiving dinner dip in the pool?Becky Bartkowski, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Ooh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ooh. Accessed 9 Dec. 2024.
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