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- noun Plural form of
crier .
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Examples
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We had a couple criers, which is always sucky, because it puts other people on edge.
Familiar Faces The Pedgehog 2007
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We had a couple criers, which is always sucky, because it puts other people on edge.
Archive 2007-08-01 The Pedgehog 2007
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It used to be that "criers" were called emotionally sensitive back in the day.
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This year was unique in that there were no "criers" in the kindergarten classes.
Fore, right! 2010
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So instead of admitting the unlikelihood that this photo was used as a form of race-baiting, you prefer to stick with it, instead focusing on my calling out people like you for being wolf-criers who overuse and overaccuse, thereby diminishing the entire concept of racism in the first place.
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And IFC president Evan Shapiro makes the case for why TV's doomsday criers are mistaken.
Arianna Huffington: Put Down the Remote: Announcing the Launch of HuffPost TV Arianna Huffington 2011
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Doesn't he care about all those out-of-work town criers?
Notable & Quotable 2011
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Hallmark commercial criers live in Crazytown as do high-maintenance groomers, wine glass throwers, cougars, and women who never walk to the bathroom alone.
Emily Bracken: Women Are From Crazytown And Men Are From Weirdville Emily Bracken 2011
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The rain ended but the gloom lasted the day and through the night and into the morning that followed, as criers and couriers on horseback clattered out of the palace gates and into the streets with the news.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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So instead of admitting the unlikelihood that this photo was used as a form of race-baiting, you prefer to stick with it, instead focusing on my calling out people like you for being wolf-criers who overuse and overaccuse, thereby diminishing the entire concept of racism in the first place.
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