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titter

[tit-er] / ˈtɪt ər /


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There’s not much more to say without giving it all away, so prepare to titter, gasp, scream and cheer for this juicy slice of indulgent women’s entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

The score, by Amelia Warner, announces when to titter and when to swoon.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022

But titter not, lest you be tittered, it’s back tomorrow and the cold turkey will be brief.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2021

By the time the first half of the film had been unfolded yesterday the spectators were beginning to titter gently.

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2019

Mere mention of this ragtag family from the wrong side of the road made all the nieces titter.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

The upper keys were pressed to combine different types of laughter, from titters to belly laughs, and the foot pedals controlled the timing and duration of the laughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

The titters would feel dismissive, except that they also fit the tone’s grand-scale terror.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

The titters remained even after Smith shouted for Rock to keep Jada Pinkett Smith’s name out of his mouth.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

He asked the audience for a show of hands for who had been to the Hampshire attraction, and after a few titters and an expression of "not enough" from the PM, he accelerated.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2021

The simulacrum swells, titters, and then falls into a pile of laughing shadows, their cackles falling against my ears like slivers of ice.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

The point was that Bush lacked “moral courage,” Mr. Trudeau explained defensively, though more than a few readers must have tittered at the cruelty of his word choice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The audience tittered, uncertain if his panic was a bit.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

But titter not, lest you be tittered, it’s back tomorrow and the cold turkey will be brief.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2021

The room tittered nervously at first from the privacy of this revelation.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2018

"An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach, who scrunched up her shoulders and tittered behind a plump hand.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

SAN FRANCISCO—Alex Sorenson and Lizzie Silvers were about to tie the knot at an outdoor ceremony when a group of tipsy young men stumbled in out of the gloom, tittering at discovering nuptials in progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Miller’s apparent faux pas briefly brought tittering over a practical solution back into vogue.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2022

I also recall a lot of tittering when the prince got into a car accident while driving earlier that year.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2021

If “The Thanksgiving Play” could see its characters as more than the butt of punchlines, the skewering of cultural mindsets might provoke more collective soul-searching than tired tittering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2019

As he labored home last, he heard tittering.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand




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