the rev

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"We just heard this squeal, the rev of an engine and a huge, loud impact," Kimberly Stricklen, a visitor to New Orleans, told Reuters.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2025

The early morning air was filled with tire smoke and the sounds of car engines bouncing off the rev limiter.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2022

Text alerts go out instantly to Tembé patrols when Google’s cloud computing detects the rev of a chainsaw.

From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2022

“It was a little weird because I hit the rev limiter right before I got into the corner,” Larson said.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2022

A great number of our authoress's poems still continue unpublished, in the hands of the rev.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus