noise
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Johnson estimates she spends around six hours a day watching live shows on her phone, often as background noise while she works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“You’ve got all of this uncertainty around Iran, this uncertainty around Fed guidance to some extent. There’s all sorts of other noise in markets,” Goldberg said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Its signal is also weak and can be obscured by background noise, making highly precise equipment and advanced analysis methods essential.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Gaps began to appear between English wheels as the noise in the crowd grew louder.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
My hand flew up to smother the small noise that came out of my mouth.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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When our Zoom began, she apologized for the noises outside — construction, dog walkers, gardeners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
These noises do not serve a direct purpose.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
The sound effects that Smart Play produces replace the crash noises and pew-pew sounds that ordinarily come out of my son’s mouth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester for the past nine years, until recently, has been making noises for a while about wanting to take over leadership of the Labour Party.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
Then he started jumping around and squealing and making all kinds of noises.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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It increased the noised around the Dutchman at a time when he needed it least.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Jones tried it on last year and Scotland won at Twickenham, he noised them up again before the 2019 game and Jones' team blew a 31-0 lead.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2022
An understanding between Soviet Russia and Turkey, judiciously noised in Europe, might well halt the Dictator, no fool.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In April, Moscow noised the notion of a joint meeting of the nations of Eastern and Western Europe to discuss their "collective security."
From Time Magazine Archive
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It might get noised about that the Pontel- liers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their manage on a humbler scale than heretofore.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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The tour was just too nice until Skelton and Valetini started noising up the Lions and bringing their enormous physicality to proceedings.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
Musk’s approach to noising up his cars has also created some unexpected issues, like lithium-fueled flatulence.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2023
I started noising around that I was frantic to join ... the Japanese Army.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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That night what was a revival of the great gale took place, belling like bucks about their heads, and noising through the tower in many a voice.
From The Lord of the Sea by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
She dwarfs and shadows me so much, without a maxim but her womanhood, that I can only keep my dignity by noising my defeat.
From First Person Paramount by Pratt, Ambrose