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blare

[blair] / blɛər /


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He continues to blare cast recordings at the White House to this day.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Guy Berman, a 28-year-old Israeli student, waited out the blare of air-raid sirens before boarding a recent flight to Cyprus.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

All Norma Tactacon can do is pray as the sirens blare.

From BBC Mar. 31, 2026

Voices echo through the vast, concrete space and a cacophony of drills and electric lifts beep, buzz and blare.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2025

Church bells clang, and in the harbor, ships blare their foghorns and steam whistles shrill.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

A siren blares and a disembodied voice counts down: "Three, two, one".

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

"It blares 'hands not detected' when I'm not recording properly," said Sriramyachandra, who sends recordings via a special app to the AI data company Objectways.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

“This story promises to have the happiest ending you will ever hear,” blares a propaganda loudspeaker, one of the novel’s narrators.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

That Randy Newman anthem blares at the end of “Volcano” after Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche successfully divert a lava flow into the Pacific Ocean and the newly formed Mt.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 15, 2026

The TV in the den blares some morning news show, and Momma hums around the house.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

Volunteers handed out food and water, patriotic songs blared from loudspeakers and organisers repeatedly urged supporters not to confront police if they were stopped.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

An epidemic of car break-ins led owners to post “No Radio” signs in their windows, and auto alarms blared indignantly at all hours.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Before the rally, many gathered lined up to have a quick chat with Tisza candidates to get their autographs and bought Hungarian flags, or Tisza-branded souvenirs and clothing from pop-up vendors as music blared.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

Reggaeton and banda music blared from the stores while I stocked up on the essentials: gold hoops, baseball hats and workwear to set me up in my new life.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2026

From each truck, a loudspeaker blared announcements, first in Farsi, then Pashto.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

They’re on their way to an emergency with the siren blaring, but a driver fails to clear the path for the police cruiser.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

With the tunes blaring and while wearing his wife's jacket, Wilton has England's players charging around and taking high catches under the lights.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

In fact, this rager was Hello Kitty–themed—with trippy visuals of the fluffy cat blaring behind the DJs—and was hosted by the Dave & Buster’s in Ontario, California, just over 35 miles outside Los Angeles.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2026

In a blaring nightclub in wartime Myanmar, partied-out revellers doze until dawn by the dancefloor, wary of journeying home despite the end of a post-coup curfew.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

The music was blaring, and I swayed back and forth, hoping no one would notice I had no rhythm.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan




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