as in crying
to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress
the little girl was blubbing so uncontrollably that we couldn't understand what she was saying
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The man sat in the driver's seat, while the woman sat in the passenger seat, their crying child in the man’s arms.—
Rebecca Schneid, Time, 9 Nov. 2025
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At one point during the hearing, Richards pleaded for a tissue and began crying while recalling a particularly abusive event in May.—
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Bystander video from the shooting scene shows a sobbing woman who says the person shot was her wife.—
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As the cheering faded, she could be heard sobbing, overcome by the frightening moments that had just passed.—
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Thus is the stage set for a familiar but potentially affecting tale of nearest-and-dearest bickering and bonding, designed to have viewers weeping into their eggnog during a tonal break from Netflix’s frothier seasonal fare.—
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Hazel Smith) and weeping blue Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica cv.—
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“Blubbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blubbing. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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