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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yips
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Incense usually comes in either cone or stick form and is composed of fragrant material — usually resins, seeds, barks and flowers — that’s bound together using a combustible material.
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Caspar David Friedrich has sketchbooks of particular branches, twigs, barks of different trees.
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Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.
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Her presence is heralded not by the sounds of howls, roars or clanking chains, but by the shutting of the door to her study, the scrape of her chair as it is pulled towards her desk, and the clanking of her type-writer keys.
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One minute later, cackles rippled through my eardrums at a higher decibel than before.
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As evening falls, the clink of pints and bursts of cackles spill from Pat Collins Pub—where locals swap stories to the rhythm of fiddle tunes beneath an Irish twilight.
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Hens make a combination of clucks and yelps when calling to a gobbler.
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Most fights consist of dealing with waves of basic grunts with the occasional bruiser or shooter thrown in to keep you on edge.
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The crowd erupted in hearty grunts and boos after the error.
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But let’s circle back to TV‘s patron saint of affable, oft–insidious quacks.
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Automatic ducking doesn't add quacks to your soundtrack.
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Those whispers turned into roars in the bottom of the fifth inning when PCA sent a screamer down the first-base line and cruised into second for a double.
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On Saturday, the roars and applause of Ballantyne Ridge staff, friends and family members filled Bojangles Coliseum as 279 students walked the stage as part of the high school’s first graduating class, adding to the 22 graduates who finished mid-year.
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Overnight lows will stay warm, ranging from the upper 70s to low 80s, especially near the coast and in urban areas.
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Overnight lows will range from the upper 50s to low 60s in the valleys to the mid-60s to mid-70s about 500 feet in elevation.
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“Yips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yips. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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