cackle
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"His laugh was outrageously infectious. We all used to call it a cackle."
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Manning’s press conference cackle was followed by the cackles of adults in the room, including reporters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
If you don't know her, you're likely to know her famous cackle which has become her trademark.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
This show made me cry regularly, sometimes tears of joy, and also cackle aplenty.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025
As I thought that, I laughed out loud, a high-pitched cackle.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Manning’s press conference cackle was followed by the cackles of adults in the room, including reporters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The red-headed fairy cackles, “Your hard work didn’t pay off!”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
All week I’d reveled in the cackles of leaf monkeys, hoots of gibbons, and barks of macaques, plus choruses of birds and frogs—all backed by the hums and whines of insects.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
"The House will be in order," she said again amid the cackles.
From Salon ● May 25, 2023
Madame Violet cackles as she and the entire shop begin to fade away.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
A troupe of local performers enacted boxing and wrestling matches as the crowd cackled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
I laid on the couch and cackled like an idiot while my friends took no prisoners.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025
And they cackled with glee watching the drama in Georgia.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024
We played board games, cackled at old movies and talked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
She cackled out loud when I tried to comb the knots out of Nells hair.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Many plays and musicals are supposed to draw chuckles, but theatergoers today are cackling like they’re at a comedy show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Those stereotypes might bring to mind images of black hats, broomsticks and cackling over cauldrons, common in much media.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
But at least if we’re cackling at ourselves together in the theater, we’re less alone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
Squibb has played plenty of cackling grannies; even so, Ms. Sturak is her most unhinged.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Father and Caesar are cackling at each other like roosters.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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