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hooting

verb

present participle of hoot

as in shouting

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After most of the sellout crowd filed out Wednesday, one solitary Sox fan stood at his seat under the press box, shouting obscenities about the Guardians and the city of Cleveland.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026
News of their separation had been made public earlier this year when LaBeouf was arrested in New Orleans for two charges of simple battery where he was eventually given probation despite allegedly also harassing locals and shouting homophobic slurs.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of shouting

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Once a lawyerly panel, a takeover by a trio of conservatives deeply mistrustful of the state’s voting system has turned the board’s once mundane meetings into boisterous events packed with crowds of cheering and jeering activists.

— Tamar Hallerman, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Those jeering fans quickly had plenty to celebrate, as Austria players surrounded and jumped on their last-gasp goalscorer.

— Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 28 June 2026

Definition of jeering

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Perhaps even more notable was his volume at prospect camp practice on Friday, hooting and hollering and firing up his teammates.

— Thomas Drance, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
The stallion gallops onto the field every time the team scores a touchdown, adding to the reverberating noise of fans hooting and hollering in the stands.

— Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of hollering

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The living room and bedrooms faced 96th, a crosstown corridor over which ambulances and police cars sped day and night, their sirens howling.

— Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
The masked figure then loops back, and a howling Wood appears in the frame.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of howling

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Jewish critics accused Mamdani of insulting victims and fueling antisemitism, while pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a Manhattan vigil to denounce him for not doing enough to hold Israel accountable.

— Anthony Izaguirre, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
How odd that your in-laws can call your bed old and ugly, but balk at insulting their neighbor’s castoffs by not using them.

— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of insulting

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So many algorithms are chock-full of messaging deriding our state for its problems with affordability, housing costs, homelessness, the wealth gap, or regulation and bureaucracy.

— Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
In response, the players went on strike, deriding the proposal as anti-labor.

— Diego Lasarte, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026

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