cackle
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I cackle at the distance between perfection and utter collapse, but I also feel a pang of tenderness: I am moved by their effort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Presiding over the baddies, Jared Leto’s blue-skinned, caped, literally boneheaded man-demon Skeletor is meant to be the fiercest of antagonists, but even his own henchmen find his signature evil cackle to be a bit laughable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
The men heard a cackle in their headsets as the radio signal to Mission Control faltered and then failed.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
This show made me cry regularly, sometimes tears of joy, and also cackle aplenty.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025
As we passed from the barn, we heard the muffled and frightened moo of the cow, the frantic squealing of pigs, and the rustle and cackle of hens and roosters.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
The red-headed fairy cackles, “Your hard work didn’t pay off!”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
With each taunt, the room filled with cackles from my teammates.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2024
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
Hilariously, she cackles and says, “Have I changed?”
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
He laughed and laughed, his cackles bouncing off the walls, until finally he fell out of his chair.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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
We played board games, cackled at old movies and talked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
When I told her tickets cost 20 bucks, she actually cackled.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
Hanako and Akira both laughed, but Akira positively cackled, because they could hear their grandfather loudly singing a silly song about fresh snow, fresh snow, it goes where it goes, where does it go?
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
I can practically hear those two cackling over their macchiatos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 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
I’m not killing anyone,’ ” Yeoh says, nearly cackling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
These fearsome carnivores, known for their splotchy fur and cackling “laughter,” form complicated social networks in which high-ranking females hold sway over males and other, less dominant females.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2024
A murder of crows had gathered on one of the trees, cackling and flapping.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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