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Recent Examples of yodel
Entertainment includes bands like the Golden Gate Bavarian Club, dance contests, yodeling competitions and endless renditions of the chicken dance.
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
Highlights include German food ranging from bratwurst with sauerkraut to potato salad and apple strudel and a Bavarian biergarten with various beers and wines along with stein-holding and yodeling contests.
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Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
That’s more than double Charlotte’s population at the time, which is nothing to yodel at.
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Adam Bell,
Charlotte Observer,
3 June 2025
Unexpectedly, though quite fitting for the locale, the score includes quite a bit of yodelling, mostly for Jordan.
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Christian Lewis,
Variety,
22 Apr. 2025
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
Highlights include German food ranging from bratwurst with sauerkraut to potato salad and apple strudel and a Bavarian biergarten with various beers and wines along with stein-holding and yodeling contests.
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Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
That’s more than double Charlotte’s population at the time, which is nothing to yodel at.
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Adam Bell,
Charlotte Observer,
3 June 2025
Unexpectedly, though quite fitting for the locale, the score includes quite a bit of yodelling, mostly for Jordan.
—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yodel
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Her distinctive voice has been Widowspeak’s emblem since the band first emerged, warbled like Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval over CB radio.
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The track begins with Winter’s distinct vocals warbling and wobbling over a tender percussion groove.
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The minute-long clip, shared on June 10, shows Langley crooning the late '90s ballad while accompanying herself on piano.
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The camera pans to Cody crooning while strumming his guitar throughout the video.
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Increasingly, the crux of the debate around AI’s sustainability has been focused on data centers, which make the nebulous concept of AI very concrete with their massive, humming warehouses full of servers and huge energy requirements.
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Project Bluestem Data centers emit humming sounds from generators, fans and other equipment.
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Why would sharp-as-nails med school grads opt toward a presumably dead-end occupational route?
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McGill’s superbly nuanced calls, runs, and trills elicited commentary from a second audience, perched in the trees above—a colloquium of finches, towhees, titmice, kingbirds, juncos, and Eurasian collared doves.
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Musselwhite punctuated the music with his harmonica trills and moans while his right knee bounced in time with the rhythms.
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Gavin Newsom’s workplace issue The outgoing governor of California and anticipated 2028 presidential candidate Gavin Newsom once made headlines for something other than trolling the president of the United States on social media.
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Renee Alvarez came to the parade from Omaha, Nebraska, to troll Dutch fans and celebrate with everyone else.
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His voice has a steady resolve, avoiding the quavering hesitation of his sad-sack forebears.
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The governor, Tim Walz, defeated for the Vice Presidency, gets on TV, his voice quavering, saying the right things, speaking the truth, and advising courage.
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“Yodel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yodel. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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