clatter
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Aromatics are where things begin: ginger, garlic, onions and their cousins; the soft clatter of mirepoix or soffritto; a bloom of spices warming in fat.
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026
Dishes clatter, steam bursts from large cooking pots and music is seeping through the bustling chatter of Russian pensioners, hunched over bowls of free meals in a Saint Petersburg soup kitchen.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
That does not mean a defender cannot be sent off if they try to stop a shot and clatter into an attacker.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025
The scene is a family dinner in which ordinary household noises — the scrapes, plunks and clatter — and speech are pitched at irregular volumes and lack directional focus.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
First she tossed her bundle of bones to the upper level, wincing at the dull clatter of bone against bone inside the cloth.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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