as in blowout
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Recent Examples of laugher
There was a ripple of audience laugher during the buildup, when a member of the troupe wearing a top hat performed elaborate stretches as though limbering up for a marathon.
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Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
The path to improve from that 9-1 aggregate laugher was bound to require reinforcement from within the league.
—Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Their other two drives ended in the interceptions that essentially turned the game from a close contest into a laugher.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 10 Feb. 2025
The Bulls watched the Warriors put on an epic performance in a 132-111 win, erasing a 24-point third-quarter deficit and turning it into a laugher.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
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Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
The path to improve from that 9-1 aggregate laugher was bound to require reinforcement from within the league.
—Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Their other two drives ended in the interceptions that essentially turned the game from a close contest into a laugher.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 10 Feb. 2025
The Bulls watched the Warriors put on an epic performance in a 132-111 win, erasing a 24-point third-quarter deficit and turning it into a laugher.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laugher
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Unless there’s a true blowout team performance, chefs who did great dishes inevitably provide cover for chefs who whiffed it — or vice versa, since losing chefs can tank a team and make chefs who nailed it ineligible for the win.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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In a gritty, nervy, ultimately joyous blowout performance, the Magic routed the Atlanta Hawks 120-95 in a Play-In game, officially punching their ticket to the playoffs.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Apr. 2025
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Save for outlier performances such as what Cleveland’s Ty Jerome did to the Heat in Sunday night’s Game 1 romp and what Davion Mitchell has done in his blaze of glory the past few weeks for the Heat, the reality is that of the top seven players in this series, the Heat might only have two.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Apr. 2025
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The league may be a Liverpool romp, but a Champions League spot is in Forest’s grasp.—
Sam Settleman,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Perez was an extra-bases machine in the Royals’ doubleheader sweep of the Rockies at Kauffman Stadium.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2025
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On Wednesday, the UFC's brass decided to cut ties with Alexander and three others in the latest roster sweep.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Solid state and made without flammable materials, the little nuclear batteries might be safer than lithium-ion batteries, which are prone to thermal runaway, venting, and explosion.—
Joe Salas,
New Atlas,
26 Mar. 2025
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Paul Hughes and Usman Nurmagomedov threw down in what could be the runaway for Fight of the Year.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
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Natural disasters are increasing so much in frequency and intensity that even places once believed to be insulated from the worst of what’s to come—the cool, wet Pacific Northwest, for example—are experiencing greater effects from wildfire, storms, flooding, landslides and drought.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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Proposition 36 went into effect in December after a landslide victory at the ballot box.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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His account begins in the Spanish colonial period, when Spaniards and other Europeans debated the philosophical underpinnings of conquest and slavery, setting in motion an ideological battle between humanism and barbarism which, Grandin thinks, continues to this day.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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Seemingly spurred on by a recent Bollywood movie’s portrayal of Aurangzeb’s violent conquests against a revered Hindu king, the violence led to dozens of injuries and arrests, prompting Nagpur authorities to impose a curfew.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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Putin announced the ceasefire to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies in World War Two.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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The Eagles were at the White House on Monday afternoon to visit President Donald Trump in celebration of their Super Bowl LIX victory.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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The gains reflect a wet early winter and improved snowmelt capture, even as drought has crept back into parts of southern California.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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In 2023, as sea levels rose around the iconic island in San Francisco Bay, Pete Kelsey — a technologist specializing in 3D data capture — was called in to help save the site for future generations.—
Louise McLoughlin,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Laugher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laugher. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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