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[noiz] / nɔɪz /


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New York lawmakers mulled a bill Wednesday to regulate pedicabs, which swarm touristy areas like Times Square and Central Park and have drawn criticism for overcrowding, excessive noise and extortionate pricing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

These are not easy songs to play, nor are R.E.M. songs any kind of simple noise to generate.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Freeman said he didn’t even hear the boos: “To be honest, I don’t really hear much out there. It’s just noise because it’s so loud.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“There are people who throw punches and bluster to make noise in the room,” said Emery Simon, Spotify’s former vice president of global government relations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“It might be too loud to—” I don’t have to finish my sentence, because as soon as Alex closes the door, the noise from the bowlers is cut down by more than half.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

In one snap, Baer has captured the noises and jostling of an uncomfortable train journey, the exhaustion of deployment and a hope for a new life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

When the prospectors are at work -- sometimes for months at a time -- "we do hear the noises", Baziafla's interim leader David You Bi Bolou said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

After a few years in which mainstream culture at least made noises about retiring the worst excesses of early-aughts thinspo, the pendulum appears to be swinging back.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

But people who encounter a wolf should not run, but rather make noises, maintain eye contact and retreat slowly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Lying on the straw, he stared into the darkness, listening to the noises of the party outside.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

It increased the noised around the Dutchman at a time when he needed it least.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

Jones tried it on last year and Scotland won at Twickenham, he noised them up again before the 2019 game and Jones' team blew a 31-0 lead.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2022

Prodigies which were now noised about from various sources increased men's terror.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was "Da Moan," a suddenly well-known young singer who is being noised about as "Sinatra with quality."

From Time Magazine Archive

It might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their ménage on a humbler scale than heretofore.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

The tour was just too nice until Skelton and Valetini started noising up the Lions and bringing their enormous physicality to proceedings.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025

Musk’s approach to noising up his cars has also created some unexpected issues, like lithium-fueled flatulence.

From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2023

I started noising around that I was frantic to join ... the Japanese Army.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

This period of delay and of excursions for the sake of loot, was chiefly occupied by those who remained in camp, with disgraceful quarrels when not engaged in inventing miracles, and noising them abroad.

From Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm by Daniel A. Goodsell

Stop your noising, and sit down by the hearth.

From The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. (John Millington) Synge




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