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Recent Examples of gasp
Charna Flam, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025
Sudden immersion in such frigid water, known as cold shock, can trigger immediate physiological responses such as uncontrolled gasping, rapid breathing or hyperventilation, according to the National Weather Service.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2025
If this is the last gasp of The Process, who knows what’s in store.
—Jared Weiss, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
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Verb
After kicking her feet in a circle to try to get the remains to move, the woman gasps and raises her hand to her mouth in shock.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025
Sudden immersion in such frigid water, known as cold shock, can trigger immediate physiological responses such as uncontrolled gasping, rapid breathing or hyperventilation, according to the National Weather Service.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
And the two are sadly, fatefully and inexorably tied together like the gasp before impact and the silence that follows.
—Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2025
If this is the last gasp of The Process, who knows what’s in store.
—Jared Weiss, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gasp
Verb
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Kim Doggett walked outside last Sunday to find her chocolate cake on the floor of her back porch, brown paw prints on her new beige couch and a panting opossum lying on top of it.—
Dawn Sawyer,
CNN,
15 Feb. 2025
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Indeed, by the time the procedure was finished, the rabbit was sitting up in its cage, looking around, and panting considerably less.—
Nicola Twilley,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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And there was no one with a better incredulous expression and heavy sigh.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2025
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Hannah reached for the bottle of Dom and filled her glass to the brim with a put-upon sigh, pity swimming in her hazel eyes.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
12 Feb. 2025
Verb
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But with the shot clock about to expire, Harris heaved a deep 3-pointer toward the rim and banked it in.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2025
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The waves heaved beneath our small boat on their way to batter the cliffs, giving us a small yet thrilling taste of what these seas are capable of.—
Justin Meneguzzi,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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And that whisper affected several subsequent batches.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
20 Feb. 2025
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Casualties of the layoff have turned to online whisper networks such as Blind to air their grievances.—
Brooke Erin Duffy,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
Verb
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That makes Trump and Musk the center of the national conversation — and baits hyperventilating critics into outrageous responses.—
Axios,
Axios,
13 Feb. 2025
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People ran pell-mell outside, sped away in cars with no clear destination, went to church, or just phoned the police or radio station to hyperventilate.—
Nicolas Rapold,
airmail.news,
23 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Her unfussy, unselfish industry regularly inspires murmurs of applause from the crowd during home matches at Walton Hall Park, an admiration for the simpler graces.—
Megan Feringa,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Murmurs can be harmless (known as innocent murmurs).—
Patty Weasler, RN, BSN,
Verywell Health,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The noises of all the organisms living together in a particular place—the trill of birdsong, thrum of insect wings, rustle of leaves, cacophony of yips, or a lonely midnight howl—make up that setting’s biophony, an audio signature of life.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
12 Feb. 2025
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Crows rustle in Dylan Southern’s fiction feature debut, the haunting story of a middle-aged man coming to terms with the sudden and unexpected death of his wife, the mother of his two boys.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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None of these moans are intended to dismiss the importance of clever in-jokes and references to past adventures.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Tonally registering as if carved from a medium-hard piece of oak, his transparent deliveries — mellow whispers, conversational assertions, longing moans, resolute cries — served as effective vessels for those character sketches and autobiographical reflections.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Gasp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gasp. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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