as in to shout
to utter with a sudden burst of strong feeling the whole team exclaimed with one voice, "We won!"

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Recent Examples of exclaim But out of nowhere … …BAM, as John Madden used to exclaim back in the day. Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2025 Palmer exclaimed, ripping open a long jacket to reveal her growing baby bump on the Studio 8H stage. Hannah Sacks, People.com, 29 May 2025 Bush Hager exclaimed at the time in a video shared to social media. EW.com, 28 May 2025 When a natural phenomenon has yet to be adequately explained via science, the easy go-to is to exclaim that something supernatural must be at play. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for exclaim
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  • Most of those shouting questions at Tatis for 45 minutes were doing so in Spanish.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • However, Ultraman is simple-minded and purely exists to follow Luthor's directions, down to the exact attack moves his handler shouts into his earpiece during fights.
    EW.com, EW.com, 14 July 2025
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  • Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh title in the series, is roaring even louder overseas, where its estimated opening is $171.3 million.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 5 July 2025
  • As the Swiss national anthem roared from the terraces, dispelling any suggestion that the majority of red were not from these parts, any facsimile of drift was impossible to register.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 3 July 2025

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“Exclaim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclaim. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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