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Jonathan Blythe, 41, has Asperger's Syndrome and dreads the autumn arriving, as he know it will bring a nightly din with it.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Over the din of construction behind a spiked fence, Castle, 82, told AFP her great-great-grandparents bought the property.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
When Trump spoke on the South Lawn on Monday, the White House streamed the event live on its website—but the president’s remarks couldn’t be heard over the din of a nearby helicopter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Everyone knew their fellow New Yorkers needed a bit of a break, and for a short period, the usual din of the city calmed to a whisper.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
The only human sound Turner heard, piercing the din of engines, was the crying of babies.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court, exhort or contort.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Through Le Bas, the young Louis' Jacobin tutor, he dins it in that the boy had no chance to develop normally.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Now, if there is an insufferable companion under the sun, it is the average "well-informed person" who continually dins into your ears things you were born knowing.
From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
The river gurgles like his throat, In little choking coves, And loudly dins that phantom note From out the awful groves.
From Rolling Stones by O. Henry
King had dragged me out of that dome of dins in the nick of time, and my head was recovering rapidly.
From Caves of Terror by Talbot Mundy
I’ve been oppressed by all these facts and evidence that dinned against My simple claim that I am not more sinning than I’m sinned against.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021
And when word of the disaster dinned back into the ears of Commander in Chief Isoroku Yamamoto, as he sat amid his battleships several-hundred useless miles to the northwest, the master planner could only groan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Stauffenberg's bomb was no time bomb, but it dinned into Adolf Hitler's ears what time it was on history's relentless clock.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Precisely at this moment the unexploded Nazi bomb exploded and a shower of rubble dinned like hail on the roof of the Duke's car.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The metal walls dinned back the clangor of his steps.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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The courtyard features al fresco dinning and fireplaces, as well as sweeping westerly views that capture sunsets and city lights.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2021
In June, we dragged the tables outside and set up the planter boxes for outdoor dinning.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2020
The house had an unfinished quality, and chickens strutted through the dinning room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
My husband and I were married in the garden and had a reception in an upstairs dinning room in 1994.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
Three words, endlessly repeated, dinning themselves hour after hour into receptive brains.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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