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[ek-oh] / ˈɛk oʊ /




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The myth dies hard, and in the internet age, when everyone can find their own echo chamber, it can go on for a long time.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

And let’s not forget how, in this particular song, what’s happening is that Mills is singing the same lines as Stipe, just a beat or two slower; it’s not an echo, it’s dissonance.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

To some degree, an animal-to-human translator resides within our brains, another echo of the influence of animals on the human mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The New Zealand landscape does echo the rolling hills of Central California, in a dry season, but it’s a dreary vision, hardly the paradise of Steinbeck’s memory, book or metaphor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I keep my head buried in Dad’s shirt as the clicks of Javier’s pod being latched echo in the room.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Martinez's comments have echoes of similar ones made by his Argentina defensive partner Cristian Romero against the Tottenham board last season.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

It’s a valuable history lesson in echoes and dignity, one of the film’s more moving illustrations of the legacy of demonstrating for what’s right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The deal echoes a multi-billion-dollar agreement that Verizon VZ 0.32%increase; green up pointing triangle and Corning reached earlier this month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

There’s the threat itself, which echoes similar ones against HBCUs in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s shooting last September.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

His call echoes through the room as the door shuts between us.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

He echoed Bass’ argument that there hasn’t been much affordable housing built in Raman’s district.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Criticisms which have been echoed by Elon Musk.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The case echoed other recent cases, including one where an OpenAI agent undergoing a security evaluation broke out of its testing environment and breached systems at AI platform Hugging Face.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Putin echoed Trump’s statement, saying Moscow “reaffirmed its readiness to supply oil and refined products to the American and global markets.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

But when they knocked at the door, the sound echoed vacantly.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Its experimentalist score by Iannis Xenakis, full of echoing rappings, tappings and pluckings, inspired Balanchine to equally experimental lengths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Here’s what I know: There’s a fetus inside a woman’s uterus, and the fetus can communicate in an omniscient, echoing Minnie Mouse voice with its mother.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

"You're better off being lucky than being smart," Cargil says, echoing something his father used to tell him.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Officials fear those figures could rise dramatically in the coming months, echoing the surge seen between 2013 and 2016.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

His words floated down to me, hollow and echoing.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros


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