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Set up a chair and blanket just before sunset, and join the chorus of Portlanders oohing and aahing.—Brianna Crane, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024 There was quite a bit of oohing and aahing at the Hotel Thermal in 2023 when the Karlovy Vary film festival opening ceremony started with a curtain being raised and women becoming visible.—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024 Afterward, a wide-eyed Alvarez could be seen oohing and aahing on the Astros’ bench.—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024 People walked out of theaters stunned, oohing and aahing over the shocking ending.—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for aah
Microsoft's example for how this is useful uses the exclamation mark emoji.
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James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
9 July 2025
With a 6-3 ruling Friday restricting the power of judges to issue nationwide blocks on presidential initiatives, the court put an exclamation mark on a term dominated by Trump victories.
The film earned a hugely enthusiastic seven-minute standing ovation and, in perhaps a Cannes first, saw Skarsgard hug a man dressed in a gimp mask as the audience whooped and cheered.
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Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
18 May 2025
But both agree that people were whooping it up during the screening.
Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh title in the series, is roaring even louder overseas, where its estimated opening is $171.3 million.
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Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
5 July 2025
Paul Yeung | Bloomberg | Getty Images Investors and businesses' enthusiasm for Hong Kong's equity capital markets is roaring back, as Chinese companies flocked to the city for fundraising, sparking a frenzy in the market that had been forsaken in recent years.
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