thumps
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The production’s novelty: Audience members wear headphones, so we hear Lucas’s voice more intimately, and also the creaks and thumps and eerie noises that enhance the chilling tale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Orbs of yellow light wash over plates of juicy chicken inasal; longtime friends catch up over handpicked wines as music thumps in the background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
During the 31-song album, some of it lands like the fun drama of "Down Bad," which thumps against Antonoff's synthesizer.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024
And they’re attracted to rhythmic thumps on the surface, so the Fremen — people who live in the Arrakis desert — walk in strange, loping, arrhythmic steps to avoid accidental detection.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
This time a series of smaller thumps, like someone was knocking in return.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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