burp
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Excuse them, like they popped out of his mouth like an errant burp.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
Chief emission culprits are livestock farming, particularly cattle, which release planet-warming methane when they burp.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
Livestock account for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with the largest portion coming from methane that cattle release when they burp.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
Rosenthal is among more than a thousand people who have received a procedure to help them burp since 2019 when an Illinois doctor first reported the steps of the intervention in a medical journal.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
Layla flicked a burp cloth in the air and folded it into a neat little square, scowling at Ivy.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
Even under the worst kind of duress, they don’t want to flee their homes, their belongings, certainly not their families, despite the threatening burps of Vesuvius.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
There are farts and burps for laughs, but mostly the show is about self-love and acceptance — about how goodness can and will prevail, even in the darkest of circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
Fish oil can have some annoying side effects, such as fishy burps, but generally there are minimal serious side effects.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023
He thinks the new study adds exciting evidence that these “eruptions are related to bigger processes that affect whole continents rather than being isolated, random burps of magma.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2023
Her grandmother Lucy had told her that a lady never sneezes, burps, runs, screams, or cries in public.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
One British company has even developed a wearable harness for cows that oxidizes methane as it’s burped out.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
I would eat those processed snacks until I bled pink and blue, until I burped confetti, until I was the 'Corn and the 'Corn was me.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2022
The cows had burped out so much methane that it could be seen from space.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 6, 2022
Growing visibly nervous, he burped bizarrely, briefly pinched his earlobe and covered his face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
Not one to stand on ceremony, the cat killed each bird with one crunch, ate it with two bites, digested it with three swallows, burped out four feathers, and leaped to catch another.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
It’s just like clockwork, if I have any solids during the day of the show, around song seven, I start burping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“He wasn’t eating, constantly coughing and burping and was just uncomfortable, but you just put your trust in the medical staff,” he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024
Mulaney, 42, also shared the same hospital photo on his Instagram grid and added a short video of their daughter spitting up on him while he was burping her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024
Doctors also aren’t sure why many patients keep burping long after the Botox wears off after a few months.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
Unlike Javaneh Esfahani, Laleh was perfectly capable of burping.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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