sound
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"And then the alerts started to sound and I evacuated."
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
"It was an acoustic set, but we didn't have a sound guy, and the guitar started feeding back."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Operational sound, such as those from an attraction, are classified differently than “impulsive noise,” such as a gunshot from a film production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The company, in response, designed cameras largely from scratch, as well as a new camera sound blimp for the film.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
From the sound of it, the human children had traveled two hundred bear paces westward.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The demonstrations began in early May with trade union demands for salary increases, stable fuel supplies and sounder economic management.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
It is a communal means toward “a kind of self-sustenance that was an ancient wealth sounder than dollars.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
A productive clay-court swing, taking her to the Madrid and Rome finals, meant she arrived in Paris considered a sounder bet than defending champion Swiatek.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
Deep Sea Vision had first put to sea in September 2023 from Papua New Guinea, launching a $9-million Hugin 6000 submersible equipped with a Doppler, a magnetometer, an echo sounder and a side-scan sonar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
The best way to use this information, he thought, was to buy what appeared to be the sounder mortgage bonds and simultaneously sell the unsound ones.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
It’s one of the soundest pieces of investing advice: “Time in the market beats timing the market.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
As the first study of its kind, it provides the soundest assessment to date of the consequences of stopping antidepressant treatment.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
But most all, just one of the kindest and soundest soul you'll ever meet.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023
He looks the soundest he’s ever been and is doing really well, so we’re excited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2019
With a sigh, I curled up on the edge of the bed and slept the soundest sleep of my entire sixteen years.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Vocabulary lists containing sound
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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