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adjective

as in muttered

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verb

past tense of shout
as in yelled
to speak so as to be heard at a distance well-wishers shouted to departing passengers from the dock

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Recent Examples of shouted
Adjective
Now, the sequence is more likely to end in shouted abuse and maybe a scuffle, the video shot on phones and streamed — sometimes live — on platforms like Kick or Facebook. — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026 This blend of styles is not only about presenting contrasts—clean versus shouted vocals, melodic versus dissonant riffs, headbanging versus moshing—but also preserving the murky in-between that only elevates the extreme. — Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
The accuser recalled banging on the locked toilet door to escape and says a man outside may have shouted to ask if everything was okay. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026 Children shouted, amped up on sugar and adrenaline, while orange leaves crunched under their feet. — Isa Mudannayake, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026 On Saturday morning, Suskin shouted from a megaphone while standing on a sidewalk along University Drive in Coral Springs, protesting with thousands of other South Floridians as part of the ‘No Kings’ protests across the United States. — Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2026 Farrelly was on hand to introduce the movie and shouted out his star, newcomer Anthony Ippolito, who has already earned praise for his portrayal of Stallone. — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026 Following her performance of the song, Mitchell responded to an audience member who shouted an anti-Trump remark. — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 The victim then opened the front door, saw White outside with a gun, shouted a warning to the others in the house and slammed the door shut, according to prosecutors. — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Given the nature of the call, the officer drew his weapon and shouted at the men to get out of the car and lay on the ground. — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026 Men shouted abuse from car windows or tried to bribe him with money, drugs, even girlfriends. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shouted
  1. muttered
  2. yelled
  3. whispered
  4. cried
  5. murmured
  6. hollered
  7. mouthed
  8. breathed
Adjective
  • Often made by anonymous rappers and producers with a monkish dedication to their craft, this isn’t rap for the live show but for the headphones, music where every muttered word and barely-there snare matters.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026
Definition of muttered
Verb
  • Moshier remembers when the team stopped at a fast-food restaurant on a road trip and Murphy yelled for everyone to get back to the bus.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Hill yelled at Vikings linebacker Eric Wilson after Wilson was accidentally knocked into him during Minnesota's game against Miami.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of yelled
Adjective
  • For many leaders, the phrase conjures up whispered alliances, opportunistic loyalty, self-interested maneuvering and the slow poisoning of organizational culture.
    — Harrison Monarth, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
Definition of whispered
Verb
  • By Monday, the girl who cried all those tears on her guitar will be both the youngest woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall, and youngest-member of the Nashville edition.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Several jurors cried after viewing autopsy photos of Hedgepeth, according to local media accounts.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of cried
Adjective
  • No photograph could catch the smell drifting from the nearby military barracks and Indian camps; capture the murmured swirl of French, English, Arapaho, and Lakota; or let a viewer feel the colliding anxieties and expectations that hung heavy over negotiations like this.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Definition of murmured
Verb
  • Families climbed to their rooftops and hollered for rescuers.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
  • As players and coaches hooted and hollered for Richman’s win, Mills socked a cheering Richman with a right hook to his facemask.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of hollered
Adjective
  • Straker, the foul-mouthed, Daily Mail–provoking British chef, has made his way stateside.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The loud-mouthed cameos from ex-soccer players Zlatan Ibrahimović and Eric Cantona in Nike’s World Cup hero film Rip the Script were indicative of this, chiming with an older, more arrogant vision of Nike seen in the ’90s and the aughts.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of mouthed
Adjective
  • His wraparound, tight-quarters assist on a Keshad Johnson dunk in the second half breathed fire into the lungs of the home crowd.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
Definition of breathed

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