whoosh
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“We are not seeing a big whoosh in the economy. We are seeing a strengthening recovery. It’s a cyclical recovery that is eating away at spare capacity from a cyclical low point,” Conway said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
As they sweep past, their beating wings whoosh in unison.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
The morning simmered into the afternoon, and the news of the day continued to whoosh by.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2025
The oceanic whoosh of interstellar signals to which she’s been listening without cease for years suddenly shifts into something sharp and deliberate.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
The whoosh, the beat, the flow that punctuated my beginnings in another dark place.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
Prescient stock picks and whooshes of inflows have vaulted its assets under management to more than $20 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Within five milliseconds of that contact, the spinning blade comes to a dramatic brake, and the blade whooshes below the table.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
It’s common for tires to blow out in a fire, with pressure building until the air whooshes out with a loud pop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024
Its whooshes seep into the room, neatly complementing the motion of a computer-animated, widescreen video projection, “Lightscape of the Silence.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
I’m about to turn around to look, but another gust of wind whooshes past me, and I’m back in Ms. Lena’s office.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
In Asia, Seoul stocks whooshed 75 percent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index bounced 28 percent and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rocketed more than 26 percent.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
Edgar Allan Poe, for example, wrote a short story about a comet passing close to Earth, extracting all the nitrogen from our atmosphere as it whooshed past.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023
We whooshed down toward the earth and back up again.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Suddenly the front door whooshed open, and a young woman entered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
A window in the nearby house whooshed up.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
People often describe it as ringing, buzzing, hissing, or whooshing in one or both ears.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
Meanwhile, a Lego helicopter made whooshing sounds when moved or rotated, with its Smart Brick lighting up red upon crashing.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026
The car in hand—the Karma Revero, a plug-in hybrid luxury GT, built in Riverside County, Calif.—surged beneath me, producing an otherworldly whooshing as it did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025
The air thrums with the din of destruction — giant excavators clanking against steel beams, trucks bleating out warning signals as they back into position, green organic material whooshing out of hoses onto finished sites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025
She heard the air whooshing into the big bellows in the forge and the practice tap for range of hammer on anvil.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
