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Jim Paxon remembers the roar as water cascaded down the dam’s spillway, tossing mist into the air and churning the ground below.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Brass bands pound out songs and pop anthems with thumping beats such as Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and Robbie Williams’ “Angels” as thousands of voices roar along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Because outside, away from the bright lights of the gym, riders wearing balaclavas roar past on quad bikes in the darkness.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

He preened, grabbed his oversized scissors and opened his mouth to boast, but no one could hear a single word over the deafening roar of Marine One’s idling engines.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

The audience applauded Akira as she left the stage, and this time it sounded less like the roar of a distant fire and more like the steady, reassuring thunder of horses’ hooves.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Plus, Palantir shares surge and the AI trade roars back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The result can be heard in songs like the hard-driving “Is It Real?” in which Hollywell roars about mental illness and divine intervention, while Santos coats it all in steel honey.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

She was quick to voice her frustration as her performance dropped off, throwing her arms up, letting out guttural roars and unleashing her fury on her team.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

I wear them onstage and I don’t think twice about it, but the audience roars with laughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

Rosie roars behind me as August and I fall backward onto broken plates and spilled gravy.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Forty-five years after Formula 1 last roared around Madrid, the Spanish capital is celebrating its return this weekend with a brand-new circuit, accessible from the city centre via only a metro ride.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

He’s distracted when he decides to race a comet: “We roared and thundered along side by side, both doing our level best, because I’d never struck a comet before that could lay over me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Now, nearly two years to the day after the September 2024 fire roared through, authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with the blaze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

From some angles the jets appeared very close to the roof of the DHL Stadium as they roared over amid coloured flare smoke.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

They still ran parallel to the waters of the Rio Grande, much too close to the current that roared furiously below.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Liberal democracy was a roaring economic success for most of the 20th century, at least in broad strokes and with some well-known caveats.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

The investment has been a roaring success, despite the “Danger, Will Robinson!” fears of effective altruists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

When most comics walk on stage before a roaring audience at a sold-out show, as if they’re the star of their own movie, it is intoxicating for them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The much more autumnal look to the weather charts at the moment is down to a particularly brisk and straight jet stream roaring through the skies across the Atlantic.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

And then suddenly—WHOOSH—they were out of the scalding heat, out of the roaring, crackling din of the inferno.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz