humming

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Furner has said he aims to keep Walmart’s years of sales growth humming with ever-faster online delivery, wider online selection and continuous store and supply-chain improvements, along with new revenue streams such as advertising.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Some of the big players including Meta are engaging in off-balance-sheet financial wizardry to keep their AI computing growth humming.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Punjabi music has always dominated the South Asian diaspora in the United States, on the television, humming from car stereos, mainly stayed inside those domestic spaces to private life that rarely entered into the mainstream.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

Inside a small lab tucked away in the National Botanical Gardens of Wales in Carmarthenshire, humming freezers full of labelled silver packets are the last line of defence to save wild species from extinction.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

But the very next minute he’s mumbling in Hebrew, humming that tuneless tune, and forgetting he’s got a friend who’s suffering.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman