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trumpet

[truhm-pit] / ˈtrʌm pɪt /


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blare
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Big companies continue to trumpet return-to-office mandates, but the amount of time Americans work remotely is barely budging, suggesting WFH is here to stay.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 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

Dan Schlosberg’s seven-player arrangement of Barber’s technicolor orchestration, conducted by Mr. Ashworth, was clever but mostly loud with prominent trumpet and trombone, contributing to a musical performance that had just one gear: ferociously strident intensity.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Along with her demonstrated keyboard skills, she plays solid jazz trumpet.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

Fred had played trumpet in the school jazz band since sixth grade, but he didn’t listen to jazz at home.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

“Two trumpets and a tuba, accompanied by thousands of snare drums.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 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

But I do believe — cue the trumpets and cherubs — there is nothing beyond the power of voters to fix.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 28, 2025

She would look around the walls of the room, which they had decorated together last summer with a border of marching ducks and rabbits playing trumpets and drums.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

While the tech has changed since then, the principles the court trumpeted today are evergreen.

From Slate Jul. 1, 2026

But the U.S. delegation boarded Air Force One on Friday afternoon with little else to show from a summit the president had trumpeted for weeks as an historic event.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

Organisers have each day trumpeted the large number of people packing into Melbourne Park.

From Barron's Jan. 22, 2026

Slotkin said that Trump was taking a similar stance to former President Joe Biden, who trumpeted the country’s economic performance at a time when many people were feeling a strain on their budgets.

From Salon Nov. 23, 2025

Presently the leader trumpeted softly and the grazers moved away.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

It is a profound psychological shift for a continent that has rebuilt itself after two world wars by trumpeting a message of harmony and joint economic prosperity.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 16, 2025

But this year I started receiving emails in late September trumpeting an imminent Santa Claus rally.

From MarketWatch Nov. 11, 2025

Trump Jr. made a video trumpeting his partnership, that includes an appearance by his father, President Trump.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2025

I throw myself against the risers and she passes, trumpeting and pounding the sawdust with such force that a three-foot cloud of particles trails her.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen




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