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Recent Examples of scoff
Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 9 Apr. 2025
As for the volatility of this year’s stock market, which fell 19% from February through April 8 before rebounding 14% since to recoup some of those losses, Buffett scoffed at investors’ anxieties.
—Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
As the ancient practice of yoga morphs to meet ever-shifting American tastes, Charlotte is embracing a new variation that might have drawn scoffs just a few years ago.
—Roland Wilkerson, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
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Verb
Darshan Mehta would have scoffed at being called a legend.
—Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 9 Apr. 2025
As for the volatility of this year’s stock market, which fell 19% from February through April 8 before rebounding 14% since to recoup some of those losses, Buffett scoffed at investors’ anxieties.
—Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
Noun
In the past, when my friends and I were bold enough to ask that the television behind the bar be changed to a Wisconsin women's volleyball game, it was met by scoffs from a few Brewers fans who couldn't be bothered to turn their chairs to look at the two other TVs in the room.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
As the ancient practice of yoga morphs to meet ever-shifting American tastes, Charlotte is embracing a new variation that might have drawn scoffs just a few years ago.
—Roland Wilkerson, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoff
Verb
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As Charlie soon learns, the alligator she’s been tasked with saving is in the process of devouring Joe.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
15 May 2025
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As the story of our cosmos moves forward, stars will slowly burn out, planets will freeze over, and black holes will devour light itself.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
15 May 2025
Noun
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His voice—typically pitched between a bellow and a sneer—was instantly recognizable to the couple that night.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
3 May 2025
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In a movie climate where remakes tend to draw sneers of derision and claims that people have just gotten too lazy to invent anything new, Disney’s remakes of its own products are always a chief target.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
Verb
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As months and years of data arrived, Keeling’s rigorous work revealed two global phenomena: Earth’s plants inhaling CO2 each summer and exhaling it each winter, and CO2 levels’ unrelenting annual increase.—
Ashley Braun,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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Workers who inhaled Teflon fumes developed flu-like symptoms.—
Mariah Blake,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
Noun
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Aimee Lou Wood, who played Chelsea, couldn’t believe the attention on her toothy smirk.—
Brittany Talarico,
People.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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In group settings, Edelman was good for a clip on the local news, making a wry joke about his own passing abilities, the opposing team or Brady with a smirk on his face.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
6 May 2025
Verb
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The young woman gulps it down, not realizing it is laced with a sedative.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
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Some daredevils will let tarpon, which can grow up to 8 feet long, gulp their hands to the wrist for a great video moment, but Robbie’s visitors on a relatively quiet day in March were dangling fish through holes in a net, seemingly reluctant to participate in any unnerving limb gulping.—
Marnie Hunter,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Though many of the old artists’ residences have been gobbled up by new high-rises, pockets of nostalgia persist on the streets of New York’s NoHo neighborhood.—
Jennifer Fernandez,
Architectural Digest,
22 May 2025
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However, the oil industry looks more resilient today because of a wave of consolidation in which Big Oil companies with powerful balance sheets gobbled up smaller players.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
12 May 2025
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“Scoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoff. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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