cacophony
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The cacophony is yielding more questions than answers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Kingsley pantomimes resisting repeated entreaties amid the cacophony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Amid the cacophony of criticism and outrage from across the political spectrum, Israel's prime minister himself has so far been absent.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
And in floundering the ending, “Undertone” reminds us that tranquility can be far more unsettling than a cacophony of sight and sound.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
The place is alive with neon lights, loud music, and the cacophony that comes with a room full of teenagers and crashing bowling pins.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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But much of the prominent fiction of 2022 met the moment and captured this fragmentation, thick with code-switching, style-shifting and cacophonies of anxious narration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
The cacophony of viewpoints in a nation unafraid to express them seemed to yield what such cacophonies often yield: muddle.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
The collective, overlapping cacophonies from those larger waves, thought to be produced when behemoth black holes lurking in the centers of galaxies collide, are what the NANOGrav collaboration has been working to capture.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2021
But the score is beautiful, with patterns and loops and cacophonies that echo Evan’s mind.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2016
I have corrected all typographical errors,–then all slips of the pen,–then many cacophonies of language,–moreover, verbal and real blunders enough; but the conceits and the poetical tulips I have seldom rooted out.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
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