crier
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“I’m not a big crier, but I just lost it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
She also told one poor CBB housemate who was getting on her nerves: "You'd make a great town crier!"
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
He continued dance-walking down the long city block, the time-traveling Black town crier was waking up all those who would listen.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2025
Early SigAlerts had rather a small-town feel, like a town crier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
I’m not even a crier, but now I’m spending half my life on the verge of a breakdown.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
Instead of caroling and ringing church bells, the most prominent sounds on Christmastide were now town criers calling: "No Christmas! No Christmas!"
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
Fox News: It’s been said you and June Allyson were the town criers of MGM.
From Fox News ● Mar. 20, 2021
When Ayub returned to the village, he informed two town criers — saingom — that the authorities had handed down additional rules.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
Meanwhile, the union jack-suited royal obsessives and self-styled town criers have been demanding information for their travel plans to the birth.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2019
He found the criers with clarion voices and told them to muster the unshorn Akhaians in full assembly.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
