as in to cry
to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress
the child sobbed when she found the dead frog
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Recent Examples of sob
Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
Mike DeFabo wrote an incredible story about Tomlin’s farewell address, which left multiple players — including Aaron Rodgers — sobbing.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Not that Warren’s show is one big sob fest.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Her wife Becca, 40, was holding her, sobbing, covered in blood, according to witnesses.
—Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
Mike DeFabo wrote an incredible story about Tomlin’s farewell address, which left multiple players — including Aaron Rodgers — sobbing.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
Noun
Every day, the women and girls around her sob in traumatic memory of what happened to them.
—Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Not that Warren’s show is one big sob fest.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sob
Verb
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The video allegedly shows Valenzuela changing the child’s diaper when the boy began to cry.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Liam Conejo Ramos, who was born in Ecuador, continued to relive the moments immigration officers appeared and handcuffed his father, Adrián Alexander Conejo Arias, while his mother cried inside the family’s home, Conejo told Telemundo's Julio Vaqueiro on Thursday.—
Alicia Victoria Lozano,
NBC news,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In 2022, Japanese researchers found that dogs produced tears when reuniting with their humans.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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Blum looked around, stunned with tears welling in her eyes.—
Aaron Sullivan,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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It had been edited, presumably using generative AI, to show the arrestee as weeping uncontrollably.—
Donald Moynihan,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
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Outside, victims and supporters wept, hugged and wore yellow ribbons.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The ball nestling into the net was greeted with the unique mix of cheers and groans in Viejas Arena that, to the gambling crowd, can mean only one thing.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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The video ends as Chakraborty collapses onto a couch and groans in pain with the officer continuing to yell at him to drop the knife.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Sob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sob. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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