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to speak so as to be heard at a distance
well-wishers shouted to departing passengers from the dock
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Recent Examples of shouted
Averi Baudler, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
Gunfire erupted moments later as officers shouted orders from behind cover.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Dunn shouted, according to police.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
Seated next to her, Kendrick Walker, a 26-year-old photographer, shouted out a local camera store, Artifct, which is offering 15% off to any customer who brings in a non-perishable food item.
—Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Nov. 2025
At some point during the protest, Ivery approached a US Border Patrol agent and shouted something at him, according to the complaint.
—Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
Giménez stared and shouted toward Wrobleski, who responded with a series of expletives that set chaos in motion.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Those who predicted a doomed future for all of humanity called us addicts and criminals, leeches and slime (and way worse things) because we were detested, shouted at, dragged by our arms across bedrooms and public sporting events.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
In April, the couple navigated another mid-episode interruption — this time from an audience member who shouted out during an interview with actor Christopher Meloni.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
In addition to luxurious cashmere joggers and the Sneex shoes celebrities can’t stop wearing, Oprah shouted out a plushy Brooklinen robe and the Skims pajamas one writer can’t get enough of.
—Averi Baudler, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
Gunfire erupted moments later as officers shouted orders from behind cover.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Dunn shouted, according to police.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
Seated next to her, Kendrick Walker, a 26-year-old photographer, shouted out a local camera store, Artifct, which is offering 15% off to any customer who brings in a non-perishable food item.
—Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Nov. 2025
At some point during the protest, Ivery approached a US Border Patrol agent and shouted something at him, according to the complaint.
—Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
Giménez stared and shouted toward Wrobleski, who responded with a series of expletives that set chaos in motion.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Those who predicted a doomed future for all of humanity called us addicts and criminals, leeches and slime (and way worse things) because we were detested, shouted at, dragged by our arms across bedrooms and public sporting events.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
In April, the couple navigated another mid-episode interruption — this time from an audience member who shouted out during an interview with actor Christopher Meloni.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shouted
Verb
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While in the parking lot, Veliz reportedly drove against traffic and yelled out gang slogans.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
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Whoever dispatched that ambulance might be one of many employees at the Department of Emergency Communications who have felt uncomfortable, yelled at and trapped between their calling to help people and what several current and former dispatchers have called a hostile work environment.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The courtroom was full Wednesday of investigators involved over the decades and the extensive Watson family, some of whom cried audibly through the proceedings.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
6 Nov. 2025
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After Brown disappeared, the owner of the bakery, Alice Lombardi, told CBS News that customers had come into the store and cried.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Bostwick asked as the audience hollered.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
23 Oct. 2025
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As soon as the injury happened, Buccaneers players Tristan Wirfs and Tez Johnson immediately hollered for trainers, with Johnson putting his head in his hands after the injury happened.—
Mark Kern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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No photograph could catch the smell drifting from the nearby military barracks and Indian camps; capture the murmured swirl of French, English, Arapaho, and Lakota; or let a viewer feel the colliding anxieties and expectations that hung heavy over negotiations like this.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Moviegoers' comic enjoyment was so prominent that at one point, a foul-mouthed viewer yelled for everyone to shut up.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Instead of the slow, masked killers people were used to, Freddy Krueger was a quick-witted, foul-mouthed, charismatic villain who could kill people in their dreams, oftentimes dragging them down into his nightmarish boiler room before finishing them off.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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His wraparound, tight-quarters assist on a Keshad Johnson dunk in the second half breathed fire into the lungs of the home crowd.—
Bryce Miller Columnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Nov. 2021
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“Shouted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shouted. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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