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yell

[yel] / jɛl /




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They made a U-turn after hearing someone yell Tupac’s name and seeing the BMW he was traveling in.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

“He’s one of those guys I would yell at from the dugout.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Santana needed to be restrained by his teammates as he continued to yell at Caballero.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

And it was some of these very same fans that used to stand outside Paul’s house in London and yell insults as Linda emerged to do the shopping.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

“I’m taking my dad’s boat for a test spin,” I yell back.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

To wit, a man catcalls her as she walks past and she yells, “I object!”

From Salon Jul. 6, 2026

“Class of 1975,” yells someone from the crowd.

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

Throughout the incident, the fan yells, “Wemby!” as well as what is thought to be the name of a meme coin.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 4, 2026

A few hours later, at a nightclub, Law laughs as a silver Jack Frost with a bullhorn yells to the clubbers to “Dance for Santa! Dance for Santa!”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 11, 2025

“Slowly, slowly,” Baba repeats as we pull out of the neighborhood, and then, as Mustafa passes a parked car, he yells, “Careful!”

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

No one yelled at him for his impertinence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Related: ‘I’ve yelled, screamed and cried’: My mother gave $400K to online scammers.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Metres away, other photographers yelled instructions to ornately dressed young women who held their fingers in victory signs and arched their backs for the camera.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

Also speaking to the BBC in 2021, she said: "I yelled to bring her back, but the nurse then just walked past me and put my daughter on a table out of my reach."

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Dorothy yelled, pounding on the front panel of the plane.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

It was not the first time I had witnessed a customer yelling at waitstaff.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

They only noticed their targets in the BMW, he said, because some women in a Chrysler Sebring were yelling at the rapper.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2026

A defense of yelling in restaurants: It’s a forbidden behavior in today’s restaurants—but Amanda Albee spoke to chefs who say it massively improved their careers.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

“For Warsh, yelling about it but not hiking because inflation is coming down is the best of all worlds,” said Guy LeBas, chief fixed-income strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

“It’s my fault,” Clare said, practically yelling over the howling wind.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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