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
Passersby who witnessed this altercation began to heckle the police, demanding they take the handcuffs off Smith.
From Salon ● May 13, 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
Responding to a heckle, Powell said: "No, I wasn't there actually."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024
Stanton could think on her feet, and she refused to be intimidated by those who dared to heckle her as she spoke.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
“Your job as a bench warmer is to come up with the heckles against the other team. I took pride in writing insults to hurl at other 15-year-olds,” Wood recalled in a recent Zoom interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
"If someone heckles me, I can heckle them back... always politely though."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2023
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
The reason, he said, is that he would expect an order from a group that cheers for the visitor and heckles the home team would be rejected.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
He heckles down the echoing curb, A step that neither hopes nor hates Ever disturb.
From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Thomas Buford Meteyard
Noisy AfD lawmakers who often heckled Merz drew the ire of parliamentary speaker Julia Kloeckner.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
In other footage verified by AFP, a reporter with Zee TV was heckled while broadcasting live from a protest in Mumbai.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
He once heckled Anne Sexton at a poetry reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
A woman heckled the mayor just as he was about to speak and accused city leadership of ignoring concerns of Muslim and Palestinian communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
They’d heckled him at his daughter’s college, where he’d been invited to give a commencement address.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Within minutes of the young man in Kasenyi sending out his note, a crowd had gathered around the four volunteers, heckling them and shouting insults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
“These people are crazy, I’m telling you. We’re lucky we have a country with people like this,” he said, over audible heckling about the Epstein files.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026
One federal agent saw the patrollers, turned up his music, and began heckling the group as he rode in.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
“I made Gabby lose by heckling her. And it made my parlay win,” he wrote on a post that included a screenshot of two bets on FanDuel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
"Don't listen to him. He's just heckling you."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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