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crier

[krahy-er] / ˈkraɪ ər /










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“I’m not a big crier, but I just lost it,” Rowell said of the moment he learned of the gift, calling it a validation of his and his team’s work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

She also told one poor CBB housemate who was getting on her nerves: "You'd make a great town crier!"

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025

“I’m a weird crier with movies. Like I won’t cry after I won the Super Bowl. I didn't cry when my kids were born,” he said.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025

If it’s any consolation, you’re not an ugly crier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2024

The crier unslung and pegged the shining harp and, taking Demodokos’s hand, led him along with all the rest—Phaiakian peers, gay amateurs of the great games.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Enlisting high cheekboned town criers isn’t the worst idea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Instead of caroling and ringing church bells, the most prominent sounds on Christmastide were now town criers calling: "No Christmas! No Christmas!"

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

Fox News: It’s been said you and June Allyson were the town criers of MGM.

From Fox News ● Mar. 20, 2021

Meanwhile, the union jack-suited royal obsessives and self-styled town criers have been demanding information for their travel plans to the birth.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2019

He found the criers with clarion voices and told them to muster the unshorn Akhaians in full assembly.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer


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