cacophony
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But, as he prepared on the range for a potential play-off, he could hear exactly what Fox had done on the nearby 18th by the cacophony of celebratory cheers.
From BBC â Jul. 19, 2026
Yet amid the strident shouts, random rudeness and ceaseless cacophony of our current-day United States, that painting, in the quiet within those walls, offers a lesson that can seem as urgent as a breaking-news bulletin.
From The Wall Street Journal â Jul. 3, 2026
The event, bringing together users and fans of the Twitch video livestreaming service, displayed a cacophony of colours and sounds across the multiple stands, punctuated by shows by drag queens and a Minecraft tournament.
From Barron's â May 30, 2026
Several members have claimed that Swalwell’s alleged behavior was an open secret amid a cacophony of rumors on social media of other potential offenders.
From Los Angeles Times â Apr. 14, 2026
You can hear them— an encompassing, overwhelming cacophony of radios, of heavy gates slamming, of shouts and whistles and running footsteps— but, oddly, at first you can’t see a single incarcerated soul.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
At times, they nearly doubled the length of their calls and amplified their whistles, in a sense shouting, to be heard above cacophonies of white noise or a recording of a pressure washer.
From New York Times â Jan. 12, 2023
But much of the prominent fiction of 2022 met the moment and captured this fragmentation, thick with code-switching, style-shifting and cacophonies of anxious narration.
From Los Angeles Times â Dec. 20, 2022
The cacophony of viewpoints in a nation unafraid to express them seemed to yield what such cacophonies often yield: muddle.
From Washington Post â Nov. 21, 2022
The collective, overlapping cacophonies from those larger waves, thought to be produced when behemoth black holes lurking in the centers of galaxies collide, are what the NANOGrav collaboration has been working to capture.
From Scientific American â Feb. 3, 2021
His screams, his grunts, his discords, and harsh jarring cacophonies were an outrage to the very name of music.
From The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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