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cacophony

[kuh-kof-uh-nee] / kəˈkɒf ə ni /
NOUN
dissonance
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The cacophony of boos that greet the Premier League and Champions League anthems before kick-off have now become a fixture at Etihad Stadium.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The cafe is a cacophony of color in an expanse of desert brown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The safest way to escape the cacophony is to reach for noise-canceling headphones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

And while Grande later insisted the break was pre-planned and not “reactive or impulsive,” there’s no doubt the announcement was timed to dull the cacophony of both the jeers and cheers.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

As I did, the towering computers around me began to emit a cacophony of sound, like a grand orchestra tuning up.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

But much of the prominent fiction of 2022 met the moment and captured this fragmentation, thick with code-switching, style-shifting and cacophonies of anxious narration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

The cacophony of viewpoints in a nation unafraid to express them seemed to yield what such cacophonies often yield: muddle.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022

But the score is beautiful, with patterns and loops and cacophonies that echo Evan’s mind.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2016

The tracks I keep coming back to highlight the cacophonies of California lo-fi pop, carnival ambiance, and sounds that can only be described as straight off the Teletubbies cutting room floor.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2014

He eliminated from French verse hiatus, enjambement, inversions, false and imperfect rhymes, and licenses or cacophonies of all kinds.

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn


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