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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ow
Interjection
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In the north of the British Isles, people sometimes combined ye, a second person plural pronoun for you, along with aw, meaning all.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
16 July 2025 -
Studies of fathers have generated some alarmist headlines over the years, and Hrdy has kindly collated them: no dad joke: fatherhood shrinks the brain; aw, nuts!—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
30 Mar. 2024
Interjection
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There’s that, ‘Oh gosh’ kind of ‘aw shucks’ thing going on.—
Gary Graff,
Billboard,
27 Sep. 2024
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Those two characters served as the yin and yang for the early MCU — Stark the brash, rakish genius; Cap the stalwart, aw shucks warrior — that became the franchise’s gravitational center.—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2024
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“Ow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ow. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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