Thesaurus results for SPLUTTERS

splutters

verb

present tense third-person singular of splutter

as in shouts

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That video shows three boys scrubbing the floor and walls of a room in the school with rags as Morrison shouts commands and admonishments.

— Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 24 July 2026
In the background, an adult voice shouts at the bear, helping to scare the animal off.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026

Definition of shouts

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That shift matters because judgment, not technical execution, is becoming what separates a good analyst from a tool that just spits out answers.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
The most forceful argument to this end comes during a sequence in Hades, when Sinon (Elliot Page, giving the film’s best performance) essentially spits on Odysseus’s ethical and narrative framework for the world.

— Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026

Definition of spits

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But for ordinary Americans, for those of us without fame, wealth, or connections, the machinery of justice often sputters.

— Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2026
This will be a close game while the Eagles offense sputters against the Seahawks defense, and the offense hears a few boos in the second half.

— Zach Berman, New York Times, 15 May 2026

Definition of sputters

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The Moon, tied to intuition, moves through your 12th House of Solitude and conjoins healing Chiron there, opening gentle space to notice what your heart whispers.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026
From the United States losing in the round of 16 after the whole Folarin Balogun saga, to Argentina eventually going down to Spain in the final, the outcomes on the field in the end minimized whispers about potential FIFA meddling.

— Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

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