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The slinky, lurching “Husbands,” “Islands of Men” and frantic “Bow Down” sounded meaner and more electric than on the record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Marsh, the biggest global insurance broker, which acts on behalf of companies negotiating with insurers, this month sounded the alarm on exclusions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

France's e-Enfance association, which operates the national hotline for victims of online abuse, has also sounded the alarm about videos recorded with camera-equipped glasses and shared online.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

"The caller wasn't drunk, sounded sensible and said, get onto the guards, tell them to check the back routes or back roads and then repeats three times: Omagh, Omagh, Omagh."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Skeptical readers couldn’t help wondering why spirits of people who had lived in places as different as eighteenth-century Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, all sounded like a nineteenth-century Quaker abolitionist from western New York.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock


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