rumbling

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An eyewitness told the Daily Tribune newspaper that she heard a loud rumbling moments before the collapse.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

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

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

They’d passed the yellow brick road that led to the center of town and cut through the entrance to the Cursed Forest when Seven heard a low, rumbling growl.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega