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It might whir like an e-bike and look like an e-bike, but that electric cycle sitting in the garage might not technically be an e-bike, or even be street legal, in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

"I have to import from overseas," 23-year-old Dinh, who only gave one name, explained over the whir of heavy machinery.

From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025

In Boland's following over, England fell apart in a whir of loose drives.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

Overhead, the whir of drones is constant—as many as 10 Russian craft for every Ukrainian one, according to Ukrainian troops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

A blinding white light, visible for a second, then a motorized whir from inside the camera.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Machinery whirs loudly as a rare-earth mixture is bathed in hydrochloric acid and gradually separated into pure oxides that can be shipped to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

The dryer whirs soft, the fluffy smell of chemical flora rises, the badass little kids with silver teeth run circles around their mom while she folds their Spiderman T-shirts.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024

The plane’s propeller whirs, and Snoopy’s head swings around, up and down, scanning for any sign of his German foe.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023

Sixteen men sit side by side on the cement floor, damp is seeping through the walls, a single fan whirs behind the cell bars, and there is one toilet behind a low wall.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023

The line whirs as it spools off the bottle.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

The siblings’ all-day play in the backyard took on a spinning, rapturous dimension from the swarms of insects that whirred around and above them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Pasta sauces found richness from cannellini beans or chickpeas, whirred until smooth.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026

The machines buzzed and whirred as the cows were carried in a lazy arc to the parlor’s exit, where they were detached from milk hoses and sent on their way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

Tens of thousands of pounds were donated to help relatives, mountains of flowers and teddy bears were laid in tribute and community groups whirred into action to provide support for those on the ground.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2023

Something whirred and ticktocked at an uneven pace, and Emily finally zeroed in on a glass case with a structure inside designed to keep marbles perpetually moving up in buckets, down slides, and around sprockets.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

ROMONT, Switzerland—Willy Wonka would have marveled at one of the machines at a manufacturing plant here—a contraption that injects flavors into coffee capsules via a set of whirring tubes labeled “hazelnut,” “caramel,” and “blueberry cheesecake.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Rising equity prices have also kept the spending machine whirring when it comes to artificial-intelligence hyperscalers’ capital investments.

From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026

A few scenes later, a pelican switches on a cotton candy machine with its bill, sending hot sugar whirring through the air — seriously — and I nearly applauded in delight.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

The whirring piña colada machine tempted me, but at $15 a glass, it would quickly drain my budget.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

The light startled the creatures, and one of them took to the air, its wings whirring heavily through the dust.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman