cackle
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"His laugh was outrageously infectious. We all used to call it a cackle."
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
This show made me cry regularly, sometimes tears of joy, and also cackle aplenty.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025
His career paths are hunter, forager or watchtower guard, but he seems more like the product of a progressive Montessori school, even with his dad urging him to cackle at shredded deer intestines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
Wednesday was smiling, and Nancy was laughing delightedly, an old man’s cackle, and even the dour Czernobog seemed to be enjoying himself.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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
Her performance presents as camp, but her dynamic range of loud cackles and quiet glances is fabulous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
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
A troupe of local performers enacted boxing and wrestling matches as the crowd cackled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Once, in anthropology class, my professor lectured on an insular island tribe that cackled whenever someone got hurt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
Downstairs, María and Rosa cackled at some inside joke.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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
Villarreal: And that line where you tell her to Google how to play — I know it’s so simple, but it had me cackling for minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
These fearsome carnivores, known for their splotchy fur and cackling “laughter,” form complicated social networks in which high-ranking females hold sway over males and other, less dominant females.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2024
I couldn’t remember a day that you couldn’t hear something around our home: a cackling chicken, a grunting hog, or a mooing cow.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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