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clatter

[klat-er] / ˈklæt ər /




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“Couture’s” three principals rarely interact with one another, but those meaningful exchanges argue that, amid the mad clatter of the everyday, a brief, unguarded moment with a stranger can be supremely restorative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Aromatics are where things begin: ginger, garlic, onions and their cousins; the soft clatter of mirepoix or soffritto; a bloom of spices warming in fat.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2026

Dishes clatter, steam bursts from large cooking pots and music is seeping through the bustling chatter of Russian pensioners, hunched over bowls of free meals in a Saint Petersburg soup kitchen.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

That does not mean a defender cannot be sent off if they try to stop a shot and clatter into an attacker.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025

Low voices, the clatter of porcelain and metal.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

“Slap the City” clatters and coos with R&B falsetto and at least makes the blank nihilism of Drake’s dating life feel self-aware.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

She watches a humanoid robot totter around a demonstration kitchen until it trips on a chair and clatters to the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The 19-year-old's quickest time on the board so far is a 1:18.667 and on his latest run, clatters the kerbs in the borrowed Haas.

From BBC ● May 16, 2024

“Adaptation” was shot on 16 millimeter color film — the projector clatters away in the gallery on a derrick-like stand — using scale models and other practical effects.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

Without warning, Anna jumps to her feet, pushing her chair back—it clatters onto the kitchen floor, startling their daughter.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

The United Press International and Associated Press teletypes clattered away in a corner of the Columbus Citizen-Journal’s newsroom where I worked as a reporter in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

But moments later Davide Bartesaghi clattered into Mikael Ellertsson, leaving Stanciu with the task of beating France goalkeeper Mike Maignan and taking a shock three points.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

A tattooed skateboarder clattered over sidewalks, and a man sat on a bench in the shade, reading the Bible and taking notes near the opera house where the musical “Oklahoma” was playing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

In an ordinary industrial building off a busy Orange County street, a Seussian contraption, nearly 100 feet long, clattered to life.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2024

A stampede of little footsteps clattered across the tile floor.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis

Andres Cubas escaped a booking after clattering into Adrien Rabiot.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

It switches between a ghostly, vaporous beat and a hectic middle passage filled with sampled and pitched-up voices and clattering percussion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Emphasising that concept, musical motifs from Arirang appear on the album's opening track, Body To Body, harnessed to a clattering hip-hop beat.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

We were approached by two hikers who were — teeth clattering incessantly and clothes soaked — ill-equipped for the evening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

He throws it in the empty cauldron where it lands with a dull wet thud, the watch clattering against the metal.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern


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