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Recent Examples of whistles
Kate Perez,
USA Today,
25 Feb. 2026
Mrtka was actively involved between the whistles and after the whistle, using his size to clear the net and get under opponents’ skin.
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Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
While other animals such as rats and mice are also known to have laryngeal whistles, the study says that horses are believed to be the only animals known to combine the whistle with vocal fold vibrations to create a single, dual sound call.
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Kate Perez,
USA Today,
25 Feb. 2026
Mrtka was actively involved between the whistles and after the whistle, using his size to clear the net and get under opponents’ skin.
—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whistles
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Even packed with her belongings, the purse zips smoothly and doesn’t look bulky, which is a win for a mini bag.
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About 400 miles north of Hesperia, the highway zips out of California and into Nevada (around Topaz Lake), heads north for about 88 miles through Carson City and Reno, and then reenters the Golden State around Cold Springs.
Verb
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The film wheezes through its less-than-80-minute running time, and no one seems all that sad to move on.
Noun
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Up in the stands, fans waved their own flags — including some sneaked in over the objections of FIFA and the courts — and wrestled with emotions, as boos, howls and hisses rained down from all corners of the stadium.
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Spray paint hisses and music envelops Amsterdam Avenue as Knicks colors cover the sidewalk.
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Cunningham’s Fisher-Price pianos and decrepit drums are unmistakable, as is Ciani’s Buchla, which whooshes and rattles like a steam engine barreling down the tracks.
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The camera handled by cinematographer Malik Hassan Sayeed, working with Guadagnino for the first time, whooshes around his subjects to indicate the shakiness of their frames of mind.
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Each shooting star is a tiny fragment from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, a celestial traveler that swooshes around the Sun every 33 years.
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“Whistles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whistles. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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