belch
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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
One woman, doctors wrote, was “unable to voluntarily belch along with her childhood friends when this was a popular game.”
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
And cows belch methane that’s far worse for the climate.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 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
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
Equally relentless, a stream of carbon dioxide belches out of the top.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2022
Low-flying aircraft rumble overhead and a forest fire belches smoke on the horizon.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
Thanks to their methane-rich belches, cattle are the largest producers of agricultural greenhouse gasses on the planet.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
Before Ma can answer, the ground beneath our feet shudders as the volcano belches out more lava and smoke.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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
He pulled his tongue from the mouth of the bottle with a thump and belched some Dr. Nut.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
It was an adult female, who twisted his head to look straight in his eyes, before putting a finger in his mouth and belching at him.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 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
The chimneys of Swift’s packing plant stood tall against the sky, belching thick smoke that spread over Packingtown like a blanket, smothering the community below in the stench of blood.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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