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earsplitting

[eer-split-ing] / ˈɪərˌsplɪt ɪŋ /


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With barely a greeting to the rest of the musicians, he starts to sing, challenging their earsplitting guitars with his lacerating sneers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The source of the earsplitting disruption was the Hard Summer music festival held at Hollywood Park, adjacent to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024

In Alexis Scheer’s “Breaking the Story,” which opened on Tuesday at Second Stage Theater, the initial bang is an earsplitting doozy: an explosion that throws a war journalist and her videographer to the ground.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

Walker fondly recalls those glory seasons, when the Phillies made consecutive World Series trips in 2008 and 2009, and all the excitement, the earsplitting noise that made Citizens Bank Park the place to be.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 15, 2023

As the three of us stepped forward, preparing to enter the gate, I heard an earsplitting boom.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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