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ululating

verb

present participle of ululate

as in howling

to make a long loud mournful sound Arab women ululating with grief

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Recent Examples of ululating Weeping and caressing the lifeless Rahaf in her arms, the baby’s mother, Hejar Abu Jazar, kept ululating in despair. — Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025

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Then, just as suddenly, the din fades away, the focus shifts and the election process is forgotten until the next round of howling protest.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Gary ad-libbed to the sound of howling winds and ominous metal scraping.

— Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 21 June 2026

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From the outset of the selloff earlier this year, Jim Cramer was screaming from the rooftops that cyber should never have been lumped into run-of-the-mill enterprise software.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 July 2026
There were no vendors hawking bootleg royal-wedding merch, no screaming lines of fans, not even that many impromptu sing-alongs (some were solicited by journalists looking for content).

— Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 6 July 2026

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