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as in grunting
speech that is not clear enough to be understood
preoccupied with what he was doing, the mechanic gave only a grunt when I asked when the car would be ready
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as in laborer
a person who does very hard or dull work
we have an opening in the warehouse if you don't mind doing grunt work
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as in to mutter
to speak softly and unclearly
was so absorbed with the video game that when asked what he wanted for dinner, he just grunted
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Recent Examples of grunt
Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 24 Oct. 2024
As Melanie made tracks to find her daughter, Layton and Wilford worked to pick off grunts who tried to take the elevator down to capture/kill them.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 1 Sep. 2024
Scott Huver, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
Buffalo could be heard splashing in the swamp and grunting for miles.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Use calls, such as bleats, grunts, snort-wheezes, grunt-snort-wheezes, and more.
—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 24 Oct. 2024
As Melanie made tracks to find her daughter, Layton and Wilford worked to pick off grunts who tried to take the elevator down to capture/kill them.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 1 Sep. 2024
Verb
But Elvis Presley’s grunting granddaughter isn’t even the most outrageous contributor to the score.
—Scott Huver, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
Buffalo could be heard splashing in the swamp and grunting for miles.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grunt
Noun
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The shipyards needed laborers, and the promise of good jobs drew tens of thousands—many of them Black workers from the South and East—to places like Richmond.April White, JSTOR Daily, 16 Dec. 2024
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In addition to Mar-a-Lago and the Bedminster golf course, Trump’s Virginia winery and his Palm Beach golf course also sought foreign laborers in 2024.Zach Everson, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Elder economists muttered darkly of ancient times when the CPI rose by double digits, yet many a year had passed with no inflation sightings.Kevin Coldiron, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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When Valdivia declined to give him any money, the man allegedly muttered expletives before turning away.Landon Mion, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024
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The share of businesses planning to hire more workers increased by 3 points to 18%, the highest in a year.Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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Supporters say that this will boost workers’ rights and guard against exploitative work in Kenya’s data labeling sector, which is booming thanks to growing demand for AI training data.Billy Perrigo, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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When city officials mumble pieties and let lifesaving street designs get bogged down in endless studies.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 13 Nov. 2024
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The two haggard fighters trade punches throughout the 15th and final round, mumbling promises to each other that there will be no re-match, and the bell rings, both men barely upright, but having survived.Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2024
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With a fan balanced behind each ear, the device operates at the level of a whisper (30 decibels), and its battery can last for 17 hours, or the equivalent of two workdays.Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
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Neutral and clean with just a whisper of grain and pepper to enliven the palate.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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That time of life, eh, murmured Linda, the grandmother of the trio of women.Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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Young supporters in replica shirts pressed their faces against the perimeter fencing, murmuring at every sweet touch of the ball or ripple of the net.Rafa Honigstein and Seb Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 14 Apr. 2024
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Fike doesn’t mouth along to the songs, make distinct markers of when one ends and another begins, or even mention the titles of any of them.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2024
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Also present was Dmitri Shostakovich, who had come to New York at Stalin’s behest, in order to mouth propaganda at the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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“Grunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grunt. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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