as in yells
to speak so as to be heard at a distance
well-wishers shouted to departing passengers from the dock
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as in howls
a loud vocal expression of strong emotion
I gave a sudden shout of surprise when the shower abruptly turned ice-cold
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Recent Examples of shouts
People Staff,
PEOPLE,
21 June 2026
Roaring and grunting, his body sleek with blood and sweat, Conan tussles and grapples with a series of opponents, dominating them all, while an audience of torch-wielding vulgarians shouts and howls at the pit’s lip.
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Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
The emotional high point comes at the bridge, when the song transforms into a stomp-clap rhythm and Rodrigo shouts the lyrics with abandon.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
12 June 2026
Patchett shouts out fellow authors in the novel, including George Saunders, Paul Murray and Kiran Desai.
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Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
2 June 2026
As promised, Ali shoots him, and as everyone panics and hits the floor, Ali shouts that Alamo Brown needs to come out.
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Selome Hailu,
Variety,
1 June 2026
So shouts an unnamed (and slightly out-of-focus) soldier just as the helicopters land in the central battle sequence in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
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Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 May 2026
There have been sometimes somebody shouts in protests.
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Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
This grand procession of Edmonia’s work is an act of reclamation—a gathering in her name that shouts through stone and into the eons.
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Tyehimba Jess,
ARTnews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
ABC News,
26 June 2026
The majority of fans on the Long Island, New York property appeared to be pulling against the Colorado native with countless shouts for his golf ball to find bunkers and minor roars after each of his five bogeys during the final round.
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Mark Harris,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2026
There was an appeal for a penalty after Tyler Adams and an Aussie attacker came together in the box, but those shouts were waved away by the referee.
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David Close,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
Not everyone could get to San Antonio, but their shouts may well have been heard in Texas.
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Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
14 June 2026
Stick with alcohol-free, subtle formulas so the scent settles into the fabric rather than shouts from it.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026
Gone are the shouts, squeals, and Bowie impressions of 2022’s Freewave Lucifer fck.
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Ethan Beck,
Pitchfork,
9 June 2026
At times, the school board auditorium broke out into shouts between the groups who supported Alzubi’s reassignment and those who opposed it.
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Ciara McCarthy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 June 2026
Once inside, any sense of peace dissipates in the vociferous shouts from the local crowd, who create a hostile environment for any foreign player.
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Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
Verb
Zach Bryan shouts out the crowd on the London leg of his With Heaven on Tour on June 17.
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People Staff,
PEOPLE,
21 June 2026
Roaring and grunting, his body sleek with blood and sweat, Conan tussles and grapples with a series of opponents, dominating them all, while an audience of torch-wielding vulgarians shouts and howls at the pit’s lip.
—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
The emotional high point comes at the bridge, when the song transforms into a stomp-clap rhythm and Rodrigo shouts the lyrics with abandon.
—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
12 June 2026
Patchett shouts out fellow authors in the novel, including George Saunders, Paul Murray and Kiran Desai.
—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
2 June 2026
As promised, Ali shoots him, and as everyone panics and hits the floor, Ali shouts that Alamo Brown needs to come out.
—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
1 June 2026
So shouts an unnamed (and slightly out-of-focus) soldier just as the helicopters land in the central battle sequence in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 May 2026
There have been sometimes somebody shouts in protests.
—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
This grand procession of Edmonia’s work is an act of reclamation—a gathering in her name that shouts through stone and into the eons.
—
Tyehimba Jess,
ARTnews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
As the judge read out the sentences, shouts of protest rang out from the defendants’ box.
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ABC News,
26 June 2026
The majority of fans on the Long Island, New York property appeared to be pulling against the Colorado native with countless shouts for his golf ball to find bunkers and minor roars after each of his five bogeys during the final round.
—
Mark Harris,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2026
There was an appeal for a penalty after Tyler Adams and an Aussie attacker came together in the box, but those shouts were waved away by the referee.
—
David Close,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
Not everyone could get to San Antonio, but their shouts may well have been heard in Texas.
—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
14 June 2026
Stick with alcohol-free, subtle formulas so the scent settles into the fabric rather than shouts from it.
—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026
Gone are the shouts, squeals, and Bowie impressions of 2022’s Freewave Lucifer f
Ethan Beck,
Pitchfork,
9 June 2026
At times, the school board auditorium broke out into shouts between the groups who supported Alzubi’s reassignment and those who opposed it.
—
Ciara McCarthy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 June 2026
Once inside, any sense of peace dissipates in the vociferous shouts from the local crowd, who create a hostile environment for any foreign player.
—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shouts
Verb
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Rays pitching coach Kyle Snyder yells a lot of things from the dugout during a game, usually aimed at his own players.
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Sirianni yells to the man, who continues toward the building without a reaction.
Noun
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Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.
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Her presence is heralded not by the sounds of howls, roars or clanking chains, but by the shutting of the door to her study, the scrape of her chair as it is pulled towards her desk, and the clanking of her type-writer keys.
Verb
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Kelli cries over how solid the Mwangi unit is, praising Gerald as a father and husband and affirming that Shamea’s ass is real, while everyone else looks on, bewildered.
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Jennifer Brook cries her own tears for her husband.
Noun
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After seeing their brows bleached for the first time at our shoot, Megan and Daniela’s excited screams cause everyone’s heads to whip toward the glam room in a mixture of both fear and curiosity.
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Both human and artificial, and tantalizingly difficult to parse, the screams puncture the track’s otherwise steamy atmosphere, like a reminder of reality in the middle of a dreamy reverie.
Verb
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The Blackhawks dressing room was a rowdy scene after the game, their hoots and hollers reverberating throughout the bowels of the United Center.
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Cowboy and cowgirl hoots and hollers complement the rumbling of the massive animals’ hooves as they’re rounded up into the corrals.
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“Shouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shouts. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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