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caterwauling

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verb

present participle of caterwaul

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for caterwauling
Adjective
  • The set was nominated for best Latin pop album at the Grammy awards and best pop vocal album at the Latin Grammys.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The applause Edwards earned for just being there, against the nervous advice of GOP leaders, soon gave way to vocal anger over the Trump administration’s wrecking ball that’s vandalizing jobs and public services, such as veterans’ care, national parks and Social Security offices, across the nation.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The irony of the quintessential real estate expert buying a home in the flight path of an international airport, then complaining about the noise, is not lost on the rest of Palm Beach County.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • That first-round pick became Merriman (although, the Giants aren't complaining).
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Rom-com queen Kate Hudson takes on her first series lead role as Isla Gordon, a blatant Buss surrogate whose sudden promotion to president of her billionaire family’s crown jewel kicks the 10-episode season into gear.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Critics view it as a blatant political stunt that tarnishes the library’s ideal as an apolitical institution.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Schlossberg, who is late President John F. Kennedy’s grandson and an outspoken Democratic advocate, has previously criticized Kennedy Jr. for being vocal about his anti-vaccine perspective.
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Both Starmer and Macron have sought to balance their yearslong outspoken support for Zelenskyy with the need to retain good relations with the United States.
    Rebecca Shabad, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The whining about everyone else didn’t help, either.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Stop whining and thank your lucky stars for having a job.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • And the tiny town of Dalton, Georgia, home of the largest solar panel manufacturing plant in the western hemisphere and source of about 2,000 jobs, is in the district represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene, a vociferous climate-change skeptic who has nonetheless cheered the factory.
    Bob Woods, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The fans, some of the most vociferous in the world, were in open rebellion.
    James Horncastle, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Uniformity In Spectral Reflectance: Satellites that acquire images at the same hour and angle are inherently less noisy and therefore the computer vision models’ accuracies improve.
    Elizabeth Duffy, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Last summer, a small but noisy group of venture capitalists, many of whom had criticized left-of-center workplace norms, endorsed the candidacy of Donald Trump.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Caterwauling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caterwauling. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.

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