cackle
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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
“I’m dipping nuggets you’ve never heard of into sources you could never understand,” she declares bluntly, causing us to cackle out of sheer surprise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
In a two-storey flagship laboratory in one of the many new business hubs in Chongqing, a group of kindergarten children cackle with delight as they watch a robot fish swim around the tank.
From BBC ● May 12, 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
A slow grin turned into his high-pitched cackle.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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The potent Met chorus captured the shrieking cackles of the witches, the horror of the courtiers after Duncan’s murder, and the despair of the exiles fleeing Macbeth’s tyranny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
After another burst of cackles she rolled backward and disappeared behind the lip of the roof’s gutter—one of the few homes that still had a roof.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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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
They cackled at a video showing a troop of mischievous baboons ripping up ruling party election posters with the face of the president on them.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023
His allergies were awful, the cows circling around him while he got uncomfortable and his mom cackled in their ATV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
She cackled and held up a pretend microphone to Moss’s mouth.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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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
And if you can be cackling laughing without a full set twirling in automation, that proves that the bones of the play are solid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 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
Once he startled her by making a harsh cackling sound, suddenly, and then a series of soft clucks.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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