din
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It won’t hush the din, but there’s nothing like mutual loathing to foster a sense of community.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
Amid the din of his frenetic business career, there’s a constant in Kushner’s life that he cites for keeping him grounded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
But it's not the din of a 1.6-litre V6 turbo hybrid engine which has caused the alarm.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
No noise or shouts of battle or din of arms could be heard.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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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‘There’s nobbut t’ missis; and shoo’ll not oppen ’t an ye mak’ yer flaysome dins till neeght.’
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Already in the outland wilderness The forests echo with unwonted dins; In clamorous gangs the gathering woodmen press Northward, and the stern winter's toil begins.
From Lyrics of Earth by Archibald Lampman
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
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
On the march their officers dinned into them, "the enemy is stronger."
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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Ever since my Sunday School days I've had it dinned into my ears that I'm a Child of God, that I'm made in His Image.
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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Guests enter through a private side door and they’re met with a somewhat full-sized kitchen and dinning room.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 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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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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