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ugh

[uhg, uh, oo, ookh, uhkh] / ʌg, ʌ, ʊ, ʊx, ʌx /


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“Nobody would look at that and say, ugh, you’re going to have a lot of defaults,” Ostrover said.

From Barron's Feb. 3, 2026

“There’s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it’s entrepreneurial capitalism.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 23, 2025

I mean, 45 minutes to an hour, stirring angry — ugh.

From Seattle Times Jan. 12, 2024

“But the one thing that’s killing me: ‘Emancipation’ is Antoine’s masterpiece ... and the idea that they might be denied because of me is like — ugh — that is killing me dead.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 29, 2022

Sandy makes an ugh sound as he yanks a foot out of the mud beside me.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender



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