rumbling

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Its internal speaker plays a rumbling soundtrack that sends the drumsticks attached to the instrument flittering, giving the sense of a ghostly presence tapping out a brooding dirge.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

That rumbling you hear could also just be suitcases rolled over ancient streets.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Thousands of metres beneath the ground, amid suffocating heat, lies one of the keys to Poland's rumbling mining sector -- and the world economy.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Royal scandals increase the glare on issues rumbling beneath the surface.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

He kept to the ditch along the river road so that he could duck out of sight whenever a rare oxcart came rumbling by.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat