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Recent Examples of earful
Right now, any newspaper with an interest in staying urgent and relevant and alert is getting an earful of a fractious nation.
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Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
Upon hearing the truth, Kevin drags his son out of the container, gives him an earful of expletives, and zaps him with a taser baton.
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Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Once a digitally daft chamber, today—after a summer of studying AI—most senators feel savvy enough on the topic to have a few earfuls of complaints for the giants of Silicon Valley.
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Matt Laslo,
WIRED,
13 Sep. 2023
In New York City, where more than seventy thousand people are unhoused, locals know that the place to get an earful of very loud opera along with your Big Gulp is a 7-Eleven near the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
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Adam Iscoe,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2023
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Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
Upon hearing the truth, Kevin drags his son out of the container, gives him an earful of expletives, and zaps him with a taser baton.
—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Once a digitally daft chamber, today—after a summer of studying AI—most senators feel savvy enough on the topic to have a few earfuls of complaints for the giants of Silicon Valley.
—
Matt Laslo,
WIRED,
13 Sep. 2023
In New York City, where more than seventy thousand people are unhoused, locals know that the place to get an earful of very loud opera along with your Big Gulp is a 7-Eleven near the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
—
Adam Iscoe,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for earful
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Another image on this broadside featured a section of the city’s grid based on L’Enfant’s initial drawing.
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Despite the broadsides, Obama maintains a considerably strong approval rating ‒ 66% of all voters, and 87% among Democrats, according to Marist polling.
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Gibson retires the first two batters before giving up a single to Paul Goldschmidt, followed by the homer barrage.
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Beneath its gleeful barrage of kink, karaoke, and absurdist comedy lies a sharp satire of exclusion, identity, and liberation within contemporary Queer culture.
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The suit, covered by major news media this week, was their latest salvo after months of lying low.
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Blockbuster trades between Milwaukee and Miami, Charlotte and Minnesota, and Memphis and Portland are three massive shots during the offseason transaction salvo.
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Iran’s military said the fusillade was a warning.
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The world now knew that the Biden administration had offered to evacuate Zelenskyy from Kyiv as invading Russian forces closed in on Ukraine's capital following a savage fusillade of airstrikes on cities and military bases around Ukraine.
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Djokovic went up a quick break for 3-0 in the fourth set, and closed it out with a serve and volley winner.
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On the subsequent rebound, the ball found Kovačić at the top of the box, but his right-footed volley was barely deflected over the net by Diogo Costa.
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June was a frenetic month for the metro Atlanta restaurant scene, driven in part by a flurry of downtown openings timed to the beginning of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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Trump took in tens of millions of dollars in fees from a flurry of new hotel, resort and condo deals overseas that amounts to the biggest property expansion ever in the century since the family business was founded.
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Anticipate quarter-sized hail (1 inch) and wind gusts of up to 60 mph.
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This risk area includes Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and Arlington, Virginia, where conditions are favorable for storms to produce damaging wind gusts over 70 mph and quarter-sized hail.
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Artillery cannonade from both sides is heard around the clock.
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The conclusion of your letter makes my heart throb more than a cannonade.
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“Earful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earful. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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