drowned

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Even on the rare occasions when they scored, the Americans were drowned up by the earsplitting whistles from the crowd.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

I’m less inclined to judge people from a distance after having met a man on Skid Row who said he fell apart after his young daughter drowned.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

What began as a sharp reversal in highflying artificial intelligence stocks before the market opened snowballed into a broad market selloff that drowned the broader indexes.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

After seeing his friends get into difficulty, he jumped into the River Great Ouse to help save them, but later suffered a cardiac arrest and drowned.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Six Englishmen drowned while they were moving it.

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