yawp
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For every love ballad there’s a “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” a mournful yawp on the Irish Troubles that was actually written by U2 guitarist the Edge.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2022
Here in stone and glass and wood was an eruption of human potential – a victorious yawp in the face of benightedness.
From Fox News • Apr. 16, 2019
As his literary ancestor Walt Whitman would say, it’s a “barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2019
I watched him nimbly pop up onto his surfboard and disappear with a barbaric yawp over the crest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2016
Tiny runs up to us and puts a paw on each of our shoulders and lets forth a yawp of joy.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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"Song of Myself," Vocabulary from the poem
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