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[klat-er] / ˈklæt ər /




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“Couture’s” three principals rarely interact with one another, but those meaningful exchanges argue that, amid the mad clatter of the everyday, a brief, unguarded moment with a stranger can be supremely restorative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

At Encirc's Elton factory, where bottles clatter along the conveyor belts to be filled and labelled, executives say energy prices are inseparable from the push to decarbonise.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

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

England lost six wickets for 39 runs in 11 overs, including 3-0 in six deliveries, continuing the clatter of wickets across the opening two days of the series at Perth Stadium.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

Izzy dropped her fork onto her plate with a clatter and left the room.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

“Slap the City” clatters and coos with R&B falsetto and at least makes the blank nihilism of Drake’s dating life feel self-aware.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

She watches a humanoid robot totter around a demonstration kitchen until it trips on a chair and clatters to the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Dimitar Mitov comes out in an effort to stop Emiliano Marcondes as he attempts to get his head on Rocky Bushiri's deflected shot and absolutely clatters into the Hibs attacker.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2024

“Adaptation” was shot on 16 millimeter color film — the projector clatters away in the gallery on a derrick-like stand — using scale models and other practical effects.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

At Tillie’s comment, a fork clatters onto the table and then the floor.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

But the moment that may have sealed Argentina’s fate came in the final minutes of second-half stoppage time when Enzo Fernández clattered into Spanish center back Pau Cubarsí at midfield, flipping him head over heels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The United Press International and Associated Press teletypes clattered away in a corner of the Columbus Citizen-Journal’s newsroom where I worked as a reporter in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

After being rocked by a deep Alcaraz return at 15-30, he clattered another forehand into the net on championship point.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

But moments later Davide Bartesaghi clattered into Mikael Ellertsson, leaving Stanciu with the task of beating France goalkeeper Mike Maignan and taking a shock three points.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

The silverware clattered from my fingers to the bowls.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

Surrounded by sons and grandsons under a clattering ceiling fan, Safi showed the tattered identity document he has kept since fleeing the Soviet occupation more than four decades ago.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

It switches between a ghostly, vaporous beat and a hectic middle passage filled with sampled and pitched-up voices and clattering percussion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

The midfielder's effort was good, but Kinsky's save was better as he turned it over the bar, clattering into the post in the process.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

Emphasising that concept, musical motifs from Arirang appear on the album's opening track, Body To Body, harnessed to a clattering hip-hop beat.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

The tires on my faithful old bicycle had finally given out and I had joined the hundreds clattering about town on metal wheel rims.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom


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