titter
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There’s not much more to say without giving it all away, so prepare to titter, gasp, scream and cheer for this juicy slice of indulgent women’s entertainment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
The score, by Amelia Warner, announces when to titter and when to swoon.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
By the time the first half of the film had been unfolded yesterday the spectators were beginning to titter gently.
From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2019
There was a titter from the audience when the two leaders were asked what punishment they deemed suitable for lying during political campaigns.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2019
The request was made with such an earnest tone that not even a titter escaped the class.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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The pair took a beat through bubbling titters from the audience before knowingly yelling, “Happy Pride everyone!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
In the Netflix film, Swan demonstrates with calipers on a life-size, anatomically correct male baby doll in a coffee shop to the nervous titters of the participants.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
The upper keys were pressed to combine different types of laughter, from titters to belly laughs, and the foot pedals controlled the timing and duration of the laughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
"And there was understandably a lot of titters, laughter and giggles - but it's starting to feel like a tangible thing that could actually come to fruition."
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
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
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The point was that Bush lacked “moral courage,” Mr. Trudeau explained defensively, though more than a few readers must have tittered at the cruelty of his word choice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Twenty-four-year-old actor Sammy Mendoza tittered nervously, a chorus of giggles trailing her across a North Hollywood studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
They had traveled some 60 miles from Moscow just to see his latest work, and they tittered at the encounter.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
But titter not, lest you be tittered, it’s back tomorrow and the cold turkey will be brief.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2021
Some tittered to relieve the unbearable tension, some cast him a reproachful glance, Grace Wexler clicked her tongue, and Sydelle Pulaski shhh-ed.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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Laughter can be subversive, of course, and one of the great satisfactions of these films is watching so many women laugh — often guffawing, not tittering — through one predicament after another.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
But I’ll admit the shtick often had me tittering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
Miller’s apparent faux pas briefly brought tittering over a practical solution back into vogue.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2022
I also recall a lot of tittering when the prince got into a car accident while driving earlier that year.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2021
He heard, or imagined he heard, them tittering.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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