cacophony

For years, the cacophony of beeping and buzzing has been not only annoying—preventing patients from getting much needed rest—but potentially hazardous as overwhelmed healthcare professionals tune them out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But these sights are drained of their warmth, depicted with a cold, eerie hum that, when it bleeds into the roar of suffering miles away, becomes a deafening cacophony.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

"In order to avoid customers being driven chicken jalfrezi by a cacophony of sound, we are kindly asking phone users to pipe down," he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The cacophony is yielding more questions than answers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

He really was content, he told me, to stay where he was, building his influence over time, awaiting his turn to speak inside the deliberative cacophony of the Senate, but then a storm arrived.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

At times, they nearly doubled the length of their calls and amplified their whistles, in a sense shouting, to be heard above cacophonies of white noise or a recording of a pressure washer.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

But much of the prominent fiction of 2022 met the moment and captured this fragmentation, thick with code-switching, style-shifting and cacophonies of anxious narration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

The cacophony of viewpoints in a nation unafraid to express them seemed to yield what such cacophonies often yield: muddle.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022

The collective, overlapping cacophonies from those larger waves, thought to be produced when behemoth black holes lurking in the centers of galaxies collide, are what the NANOGrav collaboration has been working to capture.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2021

He eliminated from French verse hiatus, enjambement, inversions, false and imperfect rhymes, and licenses or cacophonies of all kinds.

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn