drowning

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The spate of water-related deaths follows the drowning of 15-year-old Declan Sawyer at Swanholme Lakes in Lincoln on Sunday.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Still, Owens is currently drowning in an ocean of severe legal and professional crises.

From Salon • May 23, 2026

In the movie, Bargatze plays a dad drowning in parenting duties while his wife chases a business dream.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

As a TV personality-turned-influencer, Pratt knows that storytelling is far more effective than drowning the audience in statistics, as Bass and Raman did.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

That it could be blasted over a packed auditorium, soulful sound waves sweeping over and drowning out all that was bad.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas