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reverberate

[ri-vur-buh-rayt, ri-vur-ber-it] / rɪˈvɜr bəˌreɪt, rɪˈvɜr bər ɪt /
VERB
vibrate in sound
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These, and many other questions, continue to reverberate.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

U.S. stock futures fell in early European trade, as a selloff in stocks linked to the artificial-intelligence buildout continued to reverberate across the globe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Discovery — could reverberate through the entertainment business for years to come.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The repercussions of this method still reverberate through Panettiere’s life today, with the actress musing: “I’ve often wondered whether—unintentionally—I’ve brought on my traumas because I’m wired to think they’re good for me.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

As my former Salon colleague Alison Stine described it in her story about the history of “Hey Jude” as a British football chant, it sounds great when it reverberates through a huge stadium.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

The thud of fists walloping punching bags reverberates through the gym from morning until evening.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

One can be thought of as “ripple-out” inflation, where a shock to an economically ubiquitous input — like energy — reverberates throughout other goods and sectors that depend upon it.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

The case reverberates well beyond this one company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

He waves vaguely at one of the waiters and as the clock in the hall begins to chime a low, heavy sound that reverberates throughout the house twelve times, the first course is brought out.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Gorman died, and her mother Jessica's harrowing testimony two months ago reverberated inside and outside Congress.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

When it was over, the sound of children shrieking “Puka!” reverberated off the bleachers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Higher energy prices quickly reverberated through markets, stoking a selloff in government bonds that sent the yield on the 10-year Treasury note—a barometer for borrowing costs—to the highest level of Trump’s second term.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Burns punched the air as a rapturous roar - which ripped across the course - reverberated in his ears.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The bell no longer sparked, but it was too loud, and whenever she needed to go to the toilet and rang it, the echo reverberated all over the house.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Their use shows how lessons from the war in Ukraine are reverberating on distant fronts such as Pakistan, where security forces are improvising new defences against Islamist insurgents armed with the cheap, easily obtainable devices.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The 'here we go' is on hold, the 'bombas' are done and dusted and the window panes are reverberating after being forcefully closed on Tuesday night.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

But the boom is reverberating beyond the tech-centric Bay Area: the money has also helped ease the state government’s chronic budget deficit by helping push income-tax revenues well above forecasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

O’Regan further pointed out that weakness in the Korean chip sector could be reverberating across the sector on Friday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

At times there are chains of reverberating explosions, shaking everything: the imagination, as we say, is staggered.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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