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hoot

[hoot] / hut /


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Seeing each stride into frame is a hoot.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2025

Crowds hoot and cheer as the contraptions float into the darkening sky, while referees judge the magnificence of their aerial explosions.

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

Other than that, I’m hearing that Timothée Chalamet in ‘Marty Supreme’ is a lock, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance in ‘One Battle After Another’ is a harrowing hoot.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2025

But if you keep skating, at some point you’ll meet another woman who skates, and then another, and pretty soon you and your “high vibe tribe” won’t give a hoot what anyone thinks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 21, 2025

When owls hoot, it doesn’t sound like humans laughing so I don’t know why people say ‘hoot’ but they do.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd




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