sound off

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Recent Examples of sound off And for the Energy and Commerce Committee, some hard-line conservatives are already sounding off on how the panel decided to reform Medicaid. Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 12 May 2025 His on-screen style was smooth and, ironically, given the way his BBC career has ended, uncontroversial, preferring to let his pundits sound off on the game’s big issues. Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 19 May 2025 His turkey had indeed sounded off just after daylight, but had moved sometime during the night. Thomas Weddle, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025 Vote in the poll below, then sound off in the comments. Charlie Mason, TVLine, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for sound off
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sound off
Verb
  • Christy Carlson Romano is speaking out about nearly losing an eye after she was shot in the face four months ago.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025
  • Republican Trump allies are now also speaking out against Musk.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 7 June 2025
Verb
  • Demonstrators shout and film at police during a protest in the Paramount section of Los Angeles on June 7 after federal immigration authorities conducted operations.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 June 2025
  • On Sunday at Michigan International Speedway, NASCAR made official what the Ram trucks parked in the fan midway and the Ram show truck rambling about the grounds had already shouted all weekend—unless Stellantis has taken up recreational tailgating.
    Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Verb
  • Kids at school have always cried over the tragic loss of a fellow student, and girls in the audience would weep as a ritual part of Beatlemania.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 June 2025
  • Last week, Jane cried throughout her testimony, leaving the witness box in tears after recounting a seemingly never-ending freak-off during what was supposed to be a romantic, one-on-one birthday celebration with Combs in 2023.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2025
Verb
  • An approach shot on 14 that spun away from the hole left him slamming his club into the fairway, yelling at himself.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
  • Some nearby fans continue to yell at Cousins while others get up and move away from the tense situation.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 12 June 2025
Verb
  • Our wavy-haired editors piped up to share their go-to mousses and what exactly won them over.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 31 May 2025
  • Everyone is talking and Kamilla is trying to pipe up and even has to raise her hand to get heard.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • However, today most young people rarely call each other.
    Andrea Wigfield, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Marx himself would call DEI a classic case of ideology, a set of benign-seeming ideas that disguise the workings of the rulers, in this case empowered progressives.
    WSJ, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
Verb
  • His family, including brother Freddie, were left to speak up for Sly.
    Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
  • And if my coach, Debbie Ryan, didn’t speak up for me, I would’ve been kicked out of Virginia, all because that was a new experience for me.
    Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2025
Verb
  • Young has been a fan of McMillan’s since their high school teams met in 2019, and after bumping into McMillan at a training facility in Southern California before the draft, Young talked up McMillan to Panthers coach Dave Canales and general manager Dan Morgan.
    Joseph Person, New York Times, 2 June 2025
  • Robinhood has more than 20 million monthly active users across its full suite of financial products, and CEO Vlad Tenev has frequently talked up the new sports prediction market endeavor.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 30 May 2025

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“Sound off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sound%20off. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.

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