trumpet
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Sax outdid himself by also designing a trumpet with 13 bells; this instrument, later built by his son Adolphe-Édouard, resembles a brass Hydra.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Half of the assembled musicians played on the film’s original soundtrack; star trumpet soloist Bijon Watson can even be seen wailing in the Lighthouse jazz scenes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The bleating trumpet on the following “Before I Knew” recalls Mark Isham’s work on the horn when he was in Van Morrison’s band in the early ’80s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Monty Norman's surf guitar riff and John Barry's sweeping orchestral scores spawned an entire genre of spy music – full of minor key suspense and piercing stabs of trumpet.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
She saw the Giant take a deep breath and whoof, he blew through the trumpet.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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In the pop melody “Volveré,” she questions where her heart will remain once she leaves town, as muffled trumpets chime in at the outro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Not a day goes by that I don’t read a headline that trumpets the shortage of estrogen patches, which are used to treat the bothersome symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
Hundreds of protesters stood outside in subzero temperatures and made as much noise as possible—banging pots, blowing whistles, drumming on buckets, blowing trombones and trumpets.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
“I was like, OK, I’m going to have to rearrange this. There’s like trumpets and strings, and I’m like, ‘I’m only doing piano.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
We could hear the sounds of trumpets and saxophones and other instruments echoing through the hallways, and the choir doing warm-ups in a large room next to our dressing room.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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When they landed the diving competition for the 2028 Summer Olympics last year, operators of the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena trumpeted it as a gold-medal achievement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
While the tech has changed since then, the principles the court trumpeted today are evergreen.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
Though many big companies have trumpeted their return-to-office mandates, the evidence suggests that the return to the office has stalled out across the broader economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
The junta trumpeted the election as a return of power to the people and a chance for reconciliation in the civil war.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Then everyone cheered or bayed or neighed or trumpeted or clapped its wings and the royal pair stood looking solemn and a little shy, but all the nobler for their shyness.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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But it wasn’t just Fox News trumpeting the study.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026
But China's own statements have been circumspect, saying it backs the ceasefire but hardly trumpeting its own diplomacy.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Firms that had banner years would lay siege to hotel ballrooms, trumpeting their good fortune with rip-roaring excesses more suited to an Indian wedding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
But this year I started receiving emails in late September trumpeting an imminent Santa Claus rally.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
A book not so much full of birds as full of evanescence, of blue-winged, trumpeting mysteries.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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