as in shrieking
to cry out loudly and emotionally
yelped with surprise when everything fell off the closet shelf and onto his head
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yelping
Adjective
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Allen says the little one began salivating, was noticeably flushed in his face, and became very whiny and fussy.—
Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
8 June 2025 -
Often, gallery shows are better, on all counts and, these days, less whiny and earnest.—
Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
7 June 2025
Verb
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Three were arrested, including — and here’s perhaps the wildest part — an unrelated man who showed up armed at the scene hours later, after a relative told him about the shooting, surrendered his firearms to police and began yelling at them.—
Joanna Allhands,
The Arizona Republic,
26 Dec. 2024
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Everybody was yelling his name.—
Bruce Feldman,
The Athletic,
26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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There was always the risk that he could be associated with more strident calls for change and earn the ire of his superiors.—
JOSEPH TORIGIAN,
Foreign Affairs,
23 June 2025
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Like any journal of ideas, some of its positions did not age well (notably its strident opposition to the Civil Rights Movement), but other ideas became bedrock principles of the Republican Party.—
Terry W. Hartle,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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The Wall, though, will be delightfully old school in a cap tip to the court-hugging, earsplitting, rowdy venues of college basketball’s glory days.—
Bryce MillerColumnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2023
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Donald, Mark, Willie, Billy, and Tony — practically everyone in Hollis within shouting distance of 203rd Street was laughing at me at earsplitting volume.—
Stephen A. Smith,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.—
Hisham Matar,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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Since the war began in Gaza, more than six months ago, the Israeli magazine +972 has published some of the most penetrating reporting on the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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After training an algorithm with the collected data, researchers effectively identified the members of the cohort using the nasal airflow data alone.—
Jay Kakade
June 22,
New Atlas,
22 June 2025
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Kastner was then taken to a hospital with lacerations on his face and a nasal bone fracture.—
Cristóbal Reyes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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And to eloquently share the piercing but ultimately inspiring tale of his family’s experience with the Special Olympics.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
6 June 2025
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What spooks Vara is that A.I. writes what are possibly her essay’s most piercing lines.—
Dwight Garner,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Yelping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yelping. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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