cacophony
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The cacophony is yielding more questions than answers.
From The Wall Street Journal â Jun. 19, 2026
Haaland's second-half winner sparked a cacophony of noise after Cherki had given the hosts the lead, with Kai Havertz equalising in between following Gianluigi Donnarumma's error.
From BBC â Apr. 19, 2026
And in floundering the ending, “Undertone” reminds us that tranquility can be far more unsettling than a cacophony of sight and sound.
From Salon â Mar. 15, 2026
With the rapturous cacophony this scene brings to mind, it is surprising to learn that Payawal created all of her pieces in silence.
From Los Angeles Times â Mar. 13, 2026
As camera zooms in, we pick up a cacophony of sounds.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
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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 â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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 Spingarn, Joel Elias
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