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Secular Israelis were prepared with a counter-protest, blowing whistles to drown out the chants and with some wearing pink lapel buttons showing a middle finger.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

As lab-coated figures played by Kate McKinnon and Geena Davis attempt to deliver exposition, the pals drown them out chit-chatting about drivel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

I added enough hot sauce to drown out the lemon.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

We're speaking in the middle of the same crowded bistro, where maracas, horns, matracas, and chants almost drown out our conversation.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

“But … we’re here. Does that mean we’re dead? Did we drown in Cape Fear?”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

It buys prestige, photographs, the roar that drowns out everything the host would rather you not hear.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

The bass notes of the girl group’s first single “Debut” echo through the venue, bright stage lights shine on its members and a screaming crowd nearly drowns out their vocals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

In Hamlet, Ophelia, his wife, a young noblewoman from Denmark, goes mad and drowns.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

In the play—spoiler alert—Ophelia drowns in a river after her father is murdered by Hamlet, whom she may have been in love with.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

My heart is thumping so loudly, it drowns out the sounds of laughter in the other room.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

A couple who tried to rescue a mother and daughter who drowned have called for more life-saving equipment on the beach where they died.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Witnesses say a heroic day-tripper managed to haul two children back to shore during an incident where a mother and daughter drowned.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

He received a hero’s welcome in Hostage Square in Tel Aviv after forging a tenuous Gaza ceasefire last October, visibly moved as he was drowned out by appreciative shouts of “Thank you, Witkoff!”

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

The music and cheers blur into a low hum, drowned out by the deafening sound of a ticking clock only Jack can hear.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The sight of the drowned farmland, the result of a dam that had made his patients some of the poorest on this earth, was Farmer’s lens on the world.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

It’s during a monologue in the seventh episode that we learn what haunts Wyck most: the guilt of causing his childhood friend’s drowning, which has weighed on him ever since.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

There will also be an increased potential for indoor environments to become very warm, and water related incidents may increase, including risks from cold water shock and drowning.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

And it is still, for me and for the strangers arriving on its shore, the difference between drowning and being born.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

“Without our journalists, our authors, our data, our brands and our professional expertise, users would be drowning in a slimy sea of AI slop,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Seventeenth-century scholars sometimes felt they were drowning in an ocean of books.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton