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Ocean temperatures are the highest on record, with this belch of Pacific heat adding to the warming driven by greenhouse-gas emissions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Hence it all but backtracking on its emissions reductions and climate change mitigation goals, just so users can belch out more fake, dangerously misleading images and videos.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024

Huge swaths of Amazon rainforest have been slashed to create pasture, releasing carbon stored in trees, and cows belch methane that’s far worse for the climate.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

These landfills also belch methane, a powerful, planet-warming gas, on average at almost three times the rate reported to federal regulators, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

I had just come from dinner and in bending forward to suppress a belch, I accidentally pressed the button on the wheel and the belch became a loud and shattering blast of the horn.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

They did the same for a series of what they call the “yums” — deep, robotic belches — that occur when Glazer switches to thermal imagery of a resistance fighter collecting apples in the night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

The Indonesian island of Java’s tallest volcano, Semeru, sent an ash cloud nearly a mile into the air this week—the latest uptick in unrest from a mountain that belches ash and volcanic gases almost constantly.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 6, 2022

Thanks to their methane-rich belches, cattle are the largest producers of agricultural greenhouse gasses on the planet.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022

Dear Amy: I work closely with a co-worker who constantly snorts, coughs, belches and hacks like a cat coughing up a hairball.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2022

“I do hope that Miss Trixie does appear,” he said after he had finished the first sandwich and emitted a series of belches which sounded as if they had disintegrated his digestive tract.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

On the train journey through steel country, he watched with awe the huge industrial furnaces that belched smoke and fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Sections of charred scaffolding fell from the burning apartment blocks in hellish scenes late on Wednesday, as flames inside apartments sometimes belched out through windows into a night sky that glowed orange.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

In recent episodes, Bercow’s oratorial prowess came into full flower, as he belched forth merciless diatribes that made several bystanders go cross-eyed.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024

Last year, a regrettably named trend belched up from the dark cauldron of TikTok: bed rotting.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

She stepped down onto the pavement and the bus belched black smoke and roared away.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

With black smoke belching high into the sky, Lobga staggers some 90 seconds before collapsing in flames and a U.N. security guard rushes over blasting an extinguisher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

It was an adult female, who twisted his head to look straight in his eyes, before putting a finger in his mouth and belching at him.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

AFP journalists heard blasts in Bahrain's capital Manama, and saw black smoke belching from a major oil terminal in the United Arab Emirates port city of Fujairah.

From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026

But he’s also puckish – sylph-like and otherworldly, seductive and repellent, as likely to swaddle Sarah in her heart’s desire as he is to toss her into the belching, farting Bog of Eternal Stench.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

When most people hear the words “nuclear power plant,” they picture a giant funnel tapering upward from a wide base and belching steam from the top.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland