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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

The shuffling clatter of domino-shaped ceramic tiles drowned out the women’s laughter.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 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

A nationwide noise ordinance is supposed to limit the din, especially late at night, but residents say the courtside clatter often goes unmuted.

From Barron's Dec. 28, 2025

Disjointed thoughts kept clattering through my brain—or was the clatter only the rain?

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

Dimitar Mitov comes out in an effort to stop Emiliano Marcondes as he attempts to get his head on Rocky Bushiri's deflected shot and absolutely clatters into the Hibs attacker.

From BBC Apr. 6, 2024

A conveyor clatters as the last papers are carried to the bundlers.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 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

I always hold my breath while I go, since it clatters into the can like a brook down a mountainside.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

But the moment that may have sealed Argentina’s fate came in the final minutes of second-half stoppage time when Enzo Fernández clattered into Spanish center back Pau Cubarsí at midfield, flipping him head over heels.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 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

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

It clattered to the street and rolled away.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

Once it missed the dishwasher altogether, sending a plate clattering to the floor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

It's touching and poignant, but a clattering breakbeat is a distraction from the sentiment.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Skeletor is all pixels with a clattering jaw perfect for chewing the scenery.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 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

She was suddenly aware of the trap behind her, clattering over the first bridge.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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