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Recent Examples of mew
The picture, showing Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre (then Roberts) at what was said to be Ghislaine Maxwell’s mews house in London, has dogged Andrew ever since it was first published.
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Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 13 Oct. 2025
Social media has greatly intensified this process; peep a scene like phonk, which devolved from ‘90s Memphis rap homage to a sewage stream of electronic beats to lift weights and mew to.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 4 June 2025
The second-floor guest bedroom is accompanied by a contemporary marble bathroom, and the third floor is taken up by the primary suite, which encompasses a sizable dark-blue bedroom plus a separate sitting room/office with windows overlooking the mews.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 May 2025
The private stone mews had over the years been home to the composer Cole Porter and the musician Lenny Kravitz.
—Vivian Marino, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Six months later the ones that got it right would be living in their own mews houses in Pimlico and looking fifteen years younger.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
He is survived by his family, a collection of trophy big-game mounts, and generations of bulls in Colorado’s West Elk Wilderness who knew him by bugle, chuckle, and mew.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mew
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This includes meows, purrs and chirps—averaging about 4.3 meows in the first 100 seconds of greeting, compared to 1.8 for women.—
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After hearing desperate meows echoing from the drain, a 7-Eleven employee contacted PETA for help.—
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Only the chirp of insects and the distant hum of a generator.—
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Rodrigues and his teammates started the chirps on the bench.—
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Across the canyon, flames leapt up the Paseo Miramar trail, still two miles away as the crow flies, but already too close to ignore.—
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While the studio, streaming service HBO Max and affiliated cable channel HBO are broadly considered the jewels in the WBD crow, the TV networks have been dubbed – perhaps unfairly – ‘CrapCo’ in some circles.—
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If the bark has fallen off or the twigs snap cleanly under light pressure, the branch is probably dead.—
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It is made from the inner bark of a tree.—
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However, after 40 minutes, the pilot turned back to Birmingham after issuing the 7700 squawk emergency code over the French coast, Daily Express reported.—
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There are times when squawk is not used to communicate aircraft information, like during military operations.—
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This not-quite-title song, which is nearly eight minutes long, is a sort of mini-suite, opening with a dog barking, giving way to an acoustic-guitar melody accompanying polyphonic vocals, then becoming electric and crashingly alive, until the relentless screech of a guitar drags you to the end.—
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As the band blares, Georgia fans bark for the Dawgs and Alabama faithful screech Roll Tide.—
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At the time, the two girls were seen as rivals, with Debbie’s theatrical voice vs. Tiffany’s countrified yowl.—
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Squeeze the throttle pedal firmly to the carpet and the engine room answers with more forward thrust, the 9-speed kicking down several gears nearly instantly, and the car rushing onward with accompaniment of a classic but subtle straight six yowl.—
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Junior Heifers One building was filled with the almost deafening hum of high-power hair dryers and the occasional moo.—
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How moo moo came to be be The Facebook group and the resulting moo moo movement began with a conversation between Huckins and a friend, according to both women.—
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“Mew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mew. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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