as in cry
a sudden short emotional utterance the good news was greeted with a chorus of joyous exclamations

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Recent Examples on the Web Saturday’s game put an exclamation mark on Wells’ solid end to the first half. Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024 My statement was more of a comma than an exclamation in our dialogue. Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen, Longreads, 11 June 2024 Damianos’s brutish condescension and bizarre exclamations upstages the Captain’s reserved frustration. Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 5 May 2024 To Williams and others, the finished product will ennoble the site and serve as an exclamation mark on its progress. Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for exclamation 

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“Exclamation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclamation. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.

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