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Ocean temperatures are the highest on record, with this belch of Pacific heat adding to the warming driven by greenhouse-gas emissions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Those same people are now basking in the delight of watching online trolls spiral as they belch “terrorist” while reckoning with his likelihood to win the mayorship in November.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025

And cows belch methane that’s far worse for the climate.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

These landfills also belch methane, a powerful, planet-warming gas, on average at almost three times the rate reported to federal regulators, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

He bellowed—a sound that was somewhere between a yell, a moo, and a really loud belch.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

Since June, Boyadzhyan has set off the horn in long belches in the late afternoon or at night, according to neighbors on Peach Avenue, an otherwise quiet residential area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025

Good, but the grant money it offers based on that S.A.I. or other data or the figures that another form, the CSS Profile, belches out is probably not enough to make college affordable.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Several innovative methods for reducing livestock methane emissions target enteric fermentation, which leads to methane belches.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023

The Indonesian island of Java’s tallest volcano, Semeru, sent an ash cloud nearly a mile into the air this week—the latest uptick in unrest from a mountain that belches ash and volcanic gases almost constantly.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 6, 2022

Great belches tipped out of the gas pockets of his stomach and tore through his digestive tract.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

On the train journey through steel country, he watched with awe the huge industrial furnaces that belched smoke and fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Sections of charred scaffolding fell from the burning apartment blocks in hellish scenes late on Wednesday, as flames inside apartments sometimes belched out through windows into a night sky that glowed orange.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

Last year, a regrettably named trend belched up from the dark cauldron of TikTok: bed rotting.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

The report found that gas-powered lawn equipment belched 21,800 tons of PM2.5 in 2020 — an amount equivalent to the pollution from 234 million typical cars over the course of a year.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023

It belched a huge gout of flame and charged the fractured oak tree again, striking with its great blunt wedge of a head.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

With black smoke belching high into the sky, Lobga staggers some 90 seconds before collapsing in flames and a U.N. security guard rushes over blasting an extinguisher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

AFP journalists heard blasts in Bahrain's capital Manama, and saw black smoke belching from a major oil terminal in the United Arab Emirates port city of Fujairah.

From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026

But he’s also puckish – sylph-like and otherworldly, seductive and repellent, as likely to swaddle Sarah in her heart’s desire as he is to toss her into the belching, farting Bog of Eternal Stench.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

It is an important issue given the vast number of generators belching out fumes across Nigeria as a result of the woeful power supply.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024

We threw ourselves against the walls as it shot past in a cyclone of noise and light and belching smoke.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs