drown
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Smaller businesses drown in paperwork while industry struggles with high energy and operating costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
And if he performs in the postseason, that will drown out any lingering what-ifs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Firstly, there was anger that it would drown out a conference that has been months in the planning.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Secular Israelis were prepared with a counter-protest, blowing whistles to drown out the chants and with some wearing pink lapel buttons showing a middle finger.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Taran’s throat was parched, waves of dizziness threatened to drown him.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
It buys prestige, photographs, the roar that drowns out everything the host would rather you not hear.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
“As much as they say it’s about free speech, it actually drowns out speech.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
In the play—spoiler alert—Ophelia drowns in a river after her father is murdered by Hamlet, whom she may have been in love with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
"Ken-Betwa dam is built by the government, it gives others water but drowns us," they sang, the lyrics capturing their anguish.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
I call for help but the wind drowns my cries.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Parts of Orange County, still a vast agricultural Eden, were drowned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
But by the time it was over, clips of “Ted, you suck” drowned out everything the senator actually said about the Protect College Sports Act.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
More than 1,500 people drowned when the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic while on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
At least 35 people have drowned so far during record-breaking heatwaves according to data by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
“No, I mean Edward. Dead Edward. The one whom everyone thinks drowned in a tar pit. The one who has changed his appearance and now goes by the name of Judge Quinzy.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Napa’s heralded Signorello Estate winery is drowning in debt, according to its bankruptcy filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
On Amazon, you can get blue-blockers for $20—if you want to be a sucker whose eyes are drowning in other short-wavelength light!
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
I am drowning in debt, as the old saying goes, and I need to take action.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
When Brianna Beyrouti looks back on her former life in the city of Portland, Oregon, she says she had been financially "drowning".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Clare turned the teakettle over the fire, drowning the flames.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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