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belch

[belch] / bɛltʃ /


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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

While these conflagrations engulf millions of acres of lands, they belch fine particulate matter into the air, which humans inevitably inhale.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025

Hence it all but backtracking on its emissions reductions and climate change mitigation goals, just so users can belch out more fake, dangerously misleading images and videos.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 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

Rosaleen, however, downed hers so fast she let out a belch that the boys in my old junior high would have envied.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

He includes these episodes in the film, shot in stark black-and-white thermal photography — almost like an X-ray world — punctuated by some of composer Levi’s most disturbing noises, like belches from hell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

At any given moment, Earth’s closest star belches fast, blisteringly hot particles known as the solar wind into space.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022

Equally relentless, a stream of carbon dioxide belches out of the top.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2022

Thanks to their methane-rich belches, cattle are the largest producers of agricultural greenhouse gasses on the planet.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022

Its blue and orange flag is already flying and the boiler beside it belches steam, bearing cheerful witness to the breakfast within.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

Gutted and blackened by fire, the nursing home belched smoke as a fire crew doused the last stubborn flames lapping at what remained of the roof.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

Tyrion drank a healthy swallow and belched happily.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Oil giant Phillips 66, operator of a massive oil refinery near the Port of Los Angeles, has unveiled plans to replace its belching smokestacks and hulking steel tanks with stores, restaurants and soccer fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

Ron didn’t need to spend the whole of Charms belching slugs.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling




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