clamant

adjective

ˈklā-mənt How to pronounce clamant (audio)
Definition of clamantnext
1
as in vocal
engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest clamant students gathered outside the college president's office, protesting the denial of tenure for the popular professor

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2
as in urgent
needing immediate attention faced with utter bankruptcy, she didn't think that moist skin was one of her clamant needs at that moment

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clamant
  1. vocal
  2. urgent
  3. outspoken
  4. acute
  5. vociferous
  6. blatant
  7. clamorous
  8. noisy
Adjective
  • Rowe is typically cool and collected during public appearances and has also been vocal in acknowledging the failures of his agency on July 13, when the would-be assassin shot Trump’s ear and killed a man in the crowd, and the need for reform.
    Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Pippen has been vocal about his desire tie sports and cryptocurrency together, and talks regularly about Bitcoin.
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of vocal
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  • Given the breakneck speed at which OpenAI is continuing its for-profit conversion, this is a special case with an urgent necessity for action.
    Alex Heath, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2024
  • As Barbie painted the world pink and covered the box office in a whopping $1.4 billion of green, an urgent question emerged and was lobbed at everyone involved: What about a sequel?
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of urgent
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  • She has long been outspoken in calling for a deal to return the hostages, speaking weekly outside the Israel Defense Forces headquarters in Tel Aviv, as well as outside Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem, at the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) and other locations.
    Tamar Michaelis and Jennifer Hauser, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Secretary for Homeland Security Kristi Noem, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FCC Chair Brendan Carr have all been outspoken supporters of a ban.
    Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of outspoken
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  • May Help With Wound Healing As many as one billion people worldwide have chronic and acute wounds.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Bell says the problem is especially acute in West Baltimore.
    Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of acute
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  • In 1972, Muhammad Ali was scheduled to compete in South Africa, but a vociferous campaign dissuaded him from doing so.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
  • But in 2014, Amira Hass, Haaretz’s correspondent in Ramallah and a vociferous critic of the Israeli occupation, was kicked out of an event at Bir Zeit University by two professors.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of vociferous
Adjective
  • Members of a bipartisan House task force investigating the attempt on Trump’s life pushed Ronald Rowe on how the agency’s staffers could have missed such blatant security vulnerabilities leading up to that day in July.
    Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Its animation patronizes the third world via DIE dictates, same as with the endless iterations of The Lion King, but this cartoon exoticism is just a new form of the blatant colonialism that Claude Lévi-Strauss lamented in his 1958 memoir Tristes Tropiques.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of blatant
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  • The clamorous close of the 2021 legislative session, and Walz’s role in trying to enact police reform in response to the police killings of Floyd and Wright, plays out in a cache of thousands of internal emails from the Walz administration obtained by ProPublica and the Minnesota Reformer.
    Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2024
  • After several clamorous years of electric blues power, Mayall abruptly ratcheted down the volume for two albums with Mark and Almond.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 23 July 2024
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  • In today’s noisy landscape, initial efforts to get a fledgling client noticed may fall short.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Positive energy Bears wide receiver DJ Moore looked around a noisy Friday afternoon locker room when asked how the team has handled the recent coaching changes.
    Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of noisy
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