as in cry
a sudden short emotional utterance uttered a profane ejaculation upon stubbing his toe in the dark

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Recent Examples of ejaculation Seeing the actual act of ejaculation on-screen magnifies the euphoria of this moment and how much joy can be derived from prioritizing and pleasuring yourself as well as others. David Opie, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024 In mice that ejaculated, dopamine release slowed significantly in the transition from intromission to ejaculation before rising quickly. Elana Spivack, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2025 Men’s health content related to topics like testosterone, vasectomies and premature ejaculation is so pervasive on social media, in fact, that a 2022 study waded through all of it to find some of the inaccuracies in the high volume of content that was already reaching men. Mara Santilli, Flow Space, 4 Mar. 2025 The dialogue is both realist, full of the ejaculations and repetitions that characterize human speech, and poetic, with only the occasional anapest interrupting the poem’s iambic pentameter. Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ejaculation
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Noun
  • In any case, despite critics’ cries of greenwashing and corporate astroturfing, there is still value to these devices.
    Kat Merck, Wired News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • This tender and slow hour isn’t for the restless, but a cathartic cry waits for those who make it to the end.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The exclamations continued, though, with everyone else on my new team peppering their prose with similar jolts of electricity.
    Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Therefore, superlative labels and exclamations are rarely helpful and can harm.
    Tim Maurer, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This suggests that pain interjections may have originated from nonlinguistic vocalizations.
    Katarzyna Pisanski, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Emotional vocalizations and interjections have been observed in every human culture studied to date.
    Katarzyna Pisanski, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The other, posted to Instagram, reportedly showed a trans high school athlete (a minor) winning a track and field event, along with disapproving shouts from onlookers, per the decision.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 24 Apr. 2025
  • The mouth is open just enough, perhaps because a shout of ecstasy had been ready to escape, if only the fan’s knocking at the door of the ecstatic had been answered.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Now, Hanson and Norman say, that display has moved onto social media, where teens’ For You Pages are flooded with acceptance videos featuring screams of joy and tears.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Often reserved on the court, Holiday celebrated with a loud scream while walking toward the Boston huddle.
    Jay King, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Ejaculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ejaculation. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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