as in vocal
engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest
caterwauling fans vented on the talk radio show when news of the trade of the team's star player came to light
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as in complaining
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
like many kids during summer vacation, they were caterwauling about the lack of things to do
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Bad Bunny has been vocal about representing Puerto Rico throughout his career.Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024
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The One Tree Hill alum, 43, has been vocal about her decade-long experience with a small, ultra Christian cult in recent weeks in tandem with the Oct. 22 release of her memoir, Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show.Julia Moore, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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But their whirlwind romance can’t overcome his insecurities over her promiscuous past and the blatant homophobia of his writing partner Banky (Jason Lee), who lashes out at the relationship as a means of dealing with his own repressed homosexuality.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
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The screenwriter Peter Straughan and the director Edward Berger (whose previous movie, All Quiet on the Western Front, landed a Best Picture Oscar nomination) have constructed a propulsive psychological thriller that doubles as a blatant election-year allegory.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
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Musk’s outspoken positions on social issues, particularly his recent hostility to corporate diversity, equity and inclusion policies, has led the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS, which owns Tesla shares worth about $1.8 billion, to review its investment in the carmaker.Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Will Pierce, former Senior Advisor to Bernie Sanders and Director of the Draft Biden movement, is now a Republican strategist and outspoken critic of the Democratic Party.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Don, Jr., and the tech investor David Sacks, a vociferous opponent of the war in Ukraine, pressed Trump on Vance’s behalf.Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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In addition to writing, Anderson has always been a vociferous reader, citing Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and E.E. Cummings at points during our chat.Emily Maddick, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2024
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Because House polls are subject to a lot of error, and the other indicators that our House uses can be very noisy, our model thinks there is about a 1-in-2 chance that one party wins a double-digit majority.G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Transitioning beyond the noisy NISQ era and scaling quantum hardware to enable transformative applications will require quantum error correction.Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Caterwauling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caterwauling. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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