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Its pieces stir and whir, suggesting a madcap puzzle machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Over the whine of buzzsaws and the steady whir of sanders, hundreds of Vietnamese workers in a factory outside Ho Chi Minh City hustle to fill orders for high-end furniture.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

For all their technical acumen, the hum and whir of life remains absent in their work, which merely mimics the semblances of behavior they’ve observed from other films.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

In Boland's following over, England fell apart in a whir of loose drives.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

The whir and roar beneath us was the only sound in my ears — riding the bike was the only time I couldn’t hear the constant insects and birds of Congo.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

Machinery whirs loudly as a rare-earth mixture is bathed in hydrochloric acid and gradually separated into pure oxides that can be shipped to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

The plane’s propeller whirs, and Snoopy’s head swings around, up and down, scanning for any sign of his German foe.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023

Sixteen men sit side by side on the cement floor, damp is seeping through the walls, a single fan whirs behind the cell bars, and there is one toilet behind a low wall.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023

“Practice” turns out to mean all kinds of things, from listening back to past concerts to doing near-silent left-hand studies while the laundry whirs along.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

The line whirs as it spools off the bottle.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

The robotic hip motors whirred and a mechanical force tugged at my quads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Pasta sauces found richness from cannellini beans or chickpeas, whirred until smooth.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026

Machines beeped and whirred as my husband laid on the hospital bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

It whirred with magnificent efficiency; the strings, locked into repetitive patterns, threw off bright, clean sparks.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

She noticed that just inside the entrance an electric fan whirred quietly, aiming inward, pulling fresh air into the room from somewhere out in the woods.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

There, rows of whirring white tanks filled with seawater host creatures like coral, giant clams and clownfish in what are meticulously controlled to resemble natural marine environments.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Rising equity prices have also kept the spending machine whirring when it comes to artificial-intelligence hyperscalers’ capital investments.

From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026

A few scenes later, a pelican switches on a cotton candy machine with its bill, sending hot sugar whirring through the air — seriously — and I nearly applauded in delight.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

The whirring piña colada machine tempted me, but at $15 a glass, it would quickly drain my budget.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

The counter, faces, the booths and tables, the radio in the corner, whirring fans on the ceiling—all seemed to become very faint and still.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers