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Recent Examples of rumbling
Kaijing Xiao, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
But residents recounted the quake rattling them awake, evoking descriptions of a significant jolt and rumbling.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Sam Lipsyte, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
Or is the press’s rumbling loud enough to cover up her sharp tone?
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
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Noun
The lighting was bright and red, the thunder was a long deep rumbling.
—Kaijing Xiao, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
But residents recounted the quake rattling them awake, evoking descriptions of a significant jolt and rumbling.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
Our different skin shades and our proximity on a rumbling train car was also very New York.
—Sam Lipsyte, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
Or is the press’s rumbling loud enough to cover up her sharp tone?
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rumbling
Noun
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To listen to these quiet galactic whispers, scientists need the right tools.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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At first the room was silent, but then a ripple of whispers spread.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Upon entering the foyer, I was greeted by a growling animatronic Chewbacca, playfully adorned with a Christmas hat for the holiday season.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2026
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As Dumars and Byrne, Damon and Affleck are reduced to growling law-enforcement speak, barking into walkie-talkies and carrying out every conversation while at least one hand rests on an automatic weapon—just in case someone bursts through the wall.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But facts don’t stand in the way of the Sun Sentinel’s insinuation and whispering.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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During the closing ceremony of the Nordic Film Market, industry insiders could be heard whispering in every corner, trying to do just that.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Sure, there’s the intimation of a world gone to pieces, whether from a quantum apocalypse or an ecological catastrophe; there’s the presentation of a modern self, stripped of its qualities and evacuated of purpose.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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The intimation of topography is confirmed by the label: Ngayartu Kujarra is the Punmu name for a seasonal salt lake also known as Lake Dora.—
Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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There are some hints that weighted blankets can help with anxiety, chronic pain and sleep.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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At song’s end, the camera moved over to big-screen photos of the late Charlie Kirk and his widow, Erika Kirk, who is now in charge of TPUSA, followed by a fade to darkness and closing credit that still did not offer many hints where the performance was taking place.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Two hours later, Ukraine’s urgent plight – the defining security crisis of Europe’s post-WW2 era - was passionately portrayed by President Volodymyr Zelensky, evoking the issue that should have been center stage breaking through the MAGA noise.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
15 Feb. 2026
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That one sentence explains a lot of the current noise—and where the next upside will come from.—
Martin Moszkowicz,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In December, during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual call-in show, a war reporter for the Kremlin’s main propaganda channel asked why the military had failed to develop its own version of this weapon after nearly four years of war.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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But the Olympic Games long have been a platform for politics and protest, from the Nazi propaganda in 1936 to the black-gloved fists of John Carlos and Tommie Smith in 1968 to the Munich massacre four years later.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Rumbling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rumbling. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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