heckle
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“Tiger With Cubs” depicts a tigress nursing her young under pine trees as magpies heckle them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
Arizona and Arizona State fans once used the term to heckle him, but the taunts had the opposite of their intended effect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
Last year, Dean found himself the victim of what he has described as "the most brutal heckle ever".
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
Even back in 2022, when Boebert and Greene presented as a Karen power duo out to heckle President Joe Biden, I was skeptical that their alliance would last long.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2023
At this point, Perch started to heckle me.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Lownie thinks there could be heckles or protests along the way about Epstein, but the King has the capacity to reach out to the US public and to revive a deeper partnership.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
As has become customary, the hearing was interrupted by protesters bursting into heckles; Rubio quipped that at least he gets bilingual demonstrators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
Of course, hecklers could submit their heckles via email or interview but not heckle directly at our duly elected president.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
His speech was interrupted repeatedly by heckles and jeers from opposition leadership, who at times chanted “weak.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
To his left, formed up at right angles, were the representative detachments of the Egyptian army, the 11th Soudanese, with their red heckles in their fezzes, in the front line.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
He once heckled Anne Sexton at a poetry reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Elsewhere on Thursday, angry protesters jeered and heckled Sir Keir Starmer when he visited Golders Green to meet Jewish volunteer organisations and first responders on Thursday.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
The local MP, Sarah Sackman, was also heckled.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
During a press conference about the last-ditch rescue effort, veterinarian Janine Bahr‑van Gemmert was heckled by a man who burst through a security cordon.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
Sure, we’d been heckled a few times, but once that paper goes to print, there’s no turning back.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
In an age of seemingly nonstop spam, that act of rebellion can feel deeply satisfying, like heckling a telemarketer who interrupted dinner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
I was not heckling or mocking, but what followed was immediate — and instructive.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
One federal agent saw the patrollers, turned up his music, and began heckling the group as he rode in.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
Sharma says heckling of women for their clothing is unheard of in Rishikesh, a city in the Himalayan foothills on the banks of Ganges river.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
Unlike basketball, football, soccer, there’s not supposed to be any shouting, chattering, or heckling.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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