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In no time at all, we were cackling like schoolkids on the playground of the mind, back-and-forthing lines from those Progressive Insurance commercials about turning into your parents.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2022

They passed a group of goblins who were cackling over a sack of gold that they had undoubtedly won betting on the match, and who seemed quite unperturbed by the trouble at the campsite.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

There they were cackling in their usual hugger-mugger Bedlamite, gin-palace, gruel-brained fashion, with Mr. J. at the head of them blowing a fan-fare upon his own cracked penny trumpet.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 by Various

Suddenly there was a loud squawking and all the chickens were cackling with terror.

From Three Soldiers by Dos Passos, John

When Gervaise got back to the Rue de la Goutte-d'Or she found at the Boches' a number of women who were cackling in excited tones.

From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile