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Recent Examples of exclamation
The extreme cold outbreak now arriving adds an exclamation mark to what has already been a cold month of January, which according to historical average, is on average, the coldest month of the year.
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Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
This all unfolded in a matter of a minute as scarlet and grey confetti began to fly into the early evening sky inside the Rose Bowl, a final fitting exclamation to a night of Ohio State dominance and Oregon strife.
—Christopher Kamrani, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
Gasps and exclamations evidenced that others had seen the shark, too.
—Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 13 Dec. 2024
Insert double heart-eyes and red exclamation mark emojis here.
—Shalwah Evans, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
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Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
This all unfolded in a matter of a minute as scarlet and grey confetti began to fly into the early evening sky inside the Rose Bowl, a final fitting exclamation to a night of Ohio State dominance and Oregon strife.
—Christopher Kamrani, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
Gasps and exclamations evidenced that others had seen the shark, too.
—Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 13 Dec. 2024
Insert double heart-eyes and red exclamation mark emojis here.
—Shalwah Evans, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exclamation
Noun
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Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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Many of these companies only started complaining after GameStop made short squeezes a rallying cry—when blaming short sellers suddenly garnered an audience.—
Brandon Kochkodin,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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While Brody ultimately took home the award for his role in The Brutalist, Chalamet was the lucky recipient of a hilarious special shout out from Adam Sandler.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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Of course, Washington had already given Perry a shout out.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
refinery29.com,
24 Feb. 2025
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Further, our species uses interjections to express emotions.—
Katarzyna Pisanski,
Scientific American,
21 Feb. 2025
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Those harsh, swelling wails of warning become the film’s punctuating sonic motif — in stark contrast to the buoyant, babbling vocal interjections of Alexey Shmurak’s unexpected a cappella score, a literal chorus of humanity amid the chaos.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025
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The team of cosmic homicide detectives determined a strange X-ray signal is the dying scream of a planet destroyed by a superdense stellar corpse called a white dwarf.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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The audience went wild before Cruise hit the stage, filling Harpo Studios in Chicago with deafening screams, applause and even some tears.—
Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Mar. 2025
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Upon opening the haircare tools — which retail at about $600 — the room filled with shrieks of happiness.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
23 Dec. 2024
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As Hollis releases her son’s hand and backs into the kitchen, Richard shrieks at Pino.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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The dialogue is both realist, full of the ejaculations and repetitions that characterize human speech, and poetic, with only the occasional anapest interrupting the poem’s iambic pentameter.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Excess Semen Semen, or seminal fluid, is the sperm-containing substance that males at birth secrete during ejaculation.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
14 Dec. 2024
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“Exclamation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclamation. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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