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Recent Examples of cower
Drones struck from the sky, and residents cowered indoors as local Druse militia fighters battled government forces and armed Sunni extremists.
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Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 3 May 2025
With each of Harvard’s undergraduate programs and graduate schools traditionally handling its own discipline, students with complaints often have cowered at getting involved at all.
—Andy Rose, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
European markets showed strong gains after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told EU lawmakers that the world's biggest trade bloc would not cower to U.S. trade demands.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2025
For its makers, that’s where the magic is April 15, 2025
Later, checking the bear traps, however, Yuri encounters a big-eared baby ochi cowering in a hole, its hind leg bloodied.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
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Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 3 May 2025
With each of Harvard’s undergraduate programs and graduate schools traditionally handling its own discipline, students with complaints often have cowered at getting involved at all.
—Andy Rose, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
European markets showed strong gains after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told EU lawmakers that the world's biggest trade bloc would not cower to U.S. trade demands.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2025
For its makers, that’s where the magic is April 15, 2025
Later, checking the bear traps, however, Yuri encounters a big-eared baby ochi cowering in a hole, its hind leg bloodied.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cower
Verb
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The mullet was all the rage in the 1970s and 1980s, and many people who had that hairstyle often cringe, laugh or both when looking at pictures of themselves from those days.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
22 May 2025
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That clip, featuring Jennifer rapping along without missing a beat while her daughter cringes, drew another 1 million views and more than 50,200 likes.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
Verb
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When Afrikaner apartheid was instituted in 1948, Washington didn’t flinch.—
Time,
Time,
22 May 2025
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The game was scoreless until Amarillo scored twice in the top of the seventh, but Aledo didn’t flinch.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 May 2025
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“Cower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cower. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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