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At its simplest, that works by blasting signals to drown out, confuse or supplant an adversary’s communications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Choi’s advice was to go the other direction: blister them, puree them, drown them in vinegar or chili, add something sweet, blend them into sauces, make them taste like the foods you already crave.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

Hylton calls for more research into why these children are so much more likely to drown.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Secular Israelis were prepared with a counter-protest, blowing whistles to drown out the chants and with some wearing pink lapel buttons showing a middle finger.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Enough to drown out the good-for-us stink of mustard greens.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

It buys prestige, photographs, the roar that drowns out everything the host would rather you not hear.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

In order to make her dreams come true, Lover travels to Europe for fertility treatments, where he drowns on a ship, the only thing left of him a finger, delivered to her by fishermen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

In Hamlet, Ophelia, his wife, a young noblewoman from Denmark, goes mad and drowns.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

Decades later he would tell a high-school English teacher that the scene in which Rabbit’s wife, Janice, accidentally drowns their baby “was the most intense writing of my life.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

“No. We haven’t. We’re just living on the edge of somebody else’s, like fleas on a dog’s back. If the dog drowns, the fleas drown, too.”

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

Parts of Orange County, still a vast agricultural Eden, were drowned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

But by the time it was over, clips of “Ted, you suck” drowned out everything the senator actually said about the Protect College Sports Act.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

English accents were difficult to pick out around the fight venue and whatever travelling support he did have was comprehensively drowned out by Garcia's largely Mexican-American following.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

As they continued into their first set of songs, it became apparent that the volume on their microphones was a bit low, leaving lyrics drowned in the rest of the mix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Six Englishmen drowned while they were moving it.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

The story, as it were, centers on a woman named Lisa Blupey, portrayed by stage veteran Jessica Vosk, who runs a small business selling socks but is drowning in financial statements and malfunctioning A.I.-powered platforms.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

I am drowning in debt, as the old saying goes, and I need to take action.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

An autopsy found Noah had died from drowning, with the tunnel he was found in heading towards Belfast Lough and its tides.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

In a news release, officials said an unidentified person who reported a possible drowning said White appeared to have an “unknown emergency” after entering the state’s largest reservoir to save the animal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

My whole body went numb and I almost couldn’t breathe, like I was drowning, and then I felt like I was gonna faint but I didn’t.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña