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verb

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Recent Examples of titter
Noun
This sacred sitcom Ark of the Covenant — stuffed with guffaws and chuckles and titters — was used for decades. James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025 The exchange gets nothing more than a couple awkward titters, and home viewers can practically see the audience enthusiasm evaporating in the 8H studio. Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025 The question got titters from the audience, and not because finding the remainder in a division problem is so hilarious (the answer, BTW, is two, with 16 beads on each bracelet). Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 29 Jan. 2025 Trump rallies have over-the-top party energy; Trump nicknames draw titters from the crowd. Kate Cohen, Washington Post, 25 July 2024 Santiago, dressed as the Grim Reaper, toys with her for a while, giving her a bit of hope before killing her in front of an audience that nervously titters before bursting into applause. Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 19 May 2024 His every appearance is met with titters of laughter, all amply deserved. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 June 2023 A bit of public masturbation by a gravesite, rendered in dim blue light as Turturro faces away from the audience, with a splatter of ejaculate rendered through projections (by Alex Basco Koch), gets a few predictable titters from the audience but never feels as edgy as it’s presumably meant to. Vulture, 2 Nov. 2023 There are some titters from his family, more deflated than amused. Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
Verb
Jenna was the only one upset to hear the news that had all the other girls tittering. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024 As a beaming Turner greeted a cast of hopefuls in the premiere episode, the senior center crowd tittered at attention-getting strategies like riding up to the Bachelor Mansion on a motorcycle, groaning at the franchise’s wink-wink, nudge-nudge innuendo. Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023 The crowd began to titter as Newman shaded his eyes, pretending to look into the stands for a challenger. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023 Little Madilyn, tittering, looks up at me and stuffs both hands into her mouth to stop from whooping. E. Jean Carroll, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2018 As a consumer product for those who titter, this production appears to check all the boxes. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021 All hail sound designer Ben Burtt: The tittering probe droid, the braying AT-AT laserspray. Darren Franich, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2019 That didn’t seem to faze the opening-night audience, which tittered at each scandalous line. Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019 The pass arrived just in time, and the crowd tittered in excitement. Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 3 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for titter
Verb
  • Another adorable snap featured Bush and Ocean laughing and cuddling together on a couch.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 12 May 2025
  • Everyone was barefoot, laughing, dancing and soaked.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • But a comedy with audience laughter is its own unified thing which comes together in a package that can please.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
  • This raw, vulnerable and unpredictable version of Tiffany Haddish leaves the viewer crying with laughter and sobbing from heartfelt, relatable, real-time self-healing.
    Matt Minton, Variety, 9 May 2025
Verb
  • And his son loves every second of it, giggling out loud!
    Allison Moses, USA Today, 7 May 2025
  • During the wedding ceremony, the couple both ran away from the altar, giggling like schoolchildren and vowing to do things their own way.
    Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • League sources stifle their snickers in public while privately marveling at the owner’s ceaseless stupidity. 3.
    Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • So he must be placed in the Apparition section, next to ghosts like John Barron, sharing a snicker with Ivana.
    Greg Marotta, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The workers, in shock, started laughing, and Alvarez couldn’t help but chuckle at her grandma’s bold statement.
    Jordan Greene, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Luzardo chuckled when asked about the pitch design sessions.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Videos posted to social media appear to show the mast of the ship crashing into the bridge just before 8:30 p.m., as passengers and nearby onlookers screamed, prompting an immediate search and rescue operation on the East River for the injured and overboard passengers.
    Alexandra Koch , Alexis McAdams , CB Cotton , Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2025
  • Downstairs on the fairy-tale terrace, over an exorbitant Scottish cheese board, her mother and husband and sister were all screaming at one another.
    Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025

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