cackle
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"His laugh was outrageously infectious. We all used to call it a cackle."
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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
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
When I saw this image of the would-be Poot matriarch for the first time the other day, my first reaction was a hard cackle.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 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
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
As we turn the corner into his office, the cheekily self-proclaimed “horror master” cackles at the sight that greets all who dare to enter: a life-size cardboard cut-out of “Believe”-era Justin Bieber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
He cackles, bending over to heave a laugh.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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
Castillo, who mentored Then and right-hander Prelander Berrora spring training, cackled in delight at the interaction.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 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
He cackled menacingly and threw back his head as if he were laughing at all of us.
From "Bunnicula" by Deborah Howe and James Howe
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
I’m not killing anyone,’ ” Yeoh says, nearly cackling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
Squibb has played plenty of cackling grannies; even so, Ms. Sturak is her most unhinged.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
His ears shrank from the bedlam of singing, cackling, and giggling that was going on behind the closed black patent leather shutters.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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