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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

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

It has a voracious, never-ending appetite for pulp, but is also able to belch out plastics, glass and other contaminants through an exit at the end of its rotating shaft.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 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

Travis let loose a rip-roaring belch that had us both giggling uncontrollably.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

They did the same for a series of what they call the “yums” — deep, robotic belches — that occur when Glazer switches to thermal imagery of a resistance fighter collecting apples in the night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

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

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023

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

A lake of molten sulphur extended the length of an immense canyon, releasing its mephitic vapors in sudden gusts and belches and barring the way of the solitary winged figure who stood at its edge.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Near the iconic Place de la Republique in central Paris, broken glass and debris littered the roads, as a pile of burning bicycles belched out thick smoke.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

In recent episodes, Bercow’s oratorial prowess came into full flower, as he belched forth merciless diatribes that made several bystanders go cross-eyed.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

And when Joe opened his mouth, instead of crooning like an Antonio Aguilar, he belched.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

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

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

A big white truck is backing up to the door, belching smoke.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate


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