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As lab-coated figures played by Kate McKinnon and Geena Davis attempt to deliver exposition, the pals drown them out chit-chatting about drivel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
I added enough hot sauce to drown out the lemon.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
We're speaking in the middle of the same crowded bistro, where maracas, horns, matracas, and chants almost drown out our conversation.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Even when overnight wealth just seems too easy and know-nothings have the confidence of experts, it’s human nature to join the crowd and drown out warnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Or, the snoring, which no amount of pillows folded over your head can drown out.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
“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
"I don't think it increases awareness of them... the public at large have one thing in their head, and that's the Kiss Cam video. That drowns out all the other stuff."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025
But I have quite enjoyed the platform’s small selection, because it spares me from the paralysis of endless choice that drowns me on Netflix.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025
Leer nearly drowns trying to demonstrate a sausage.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Some videos show groups of young men and women swimming happily in the sea - even though many have drowned making the trip in recent weeks.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Tragedy on beach trip" declares the Daily Mirror after a teenage girl and her mother drowned at a beach in Essex in a bid to rescue their seven-year-old relative.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
He received a hero’s welcome in Hostage Square in Tel Aviv after forging a tenuous Gaza ceasefire last October, visibly moved as he was drowned out by appreciative shouts of “Thank you, Witkoff!”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The music and cheers blur into a low hum, drowned out by the deafening sound of a ticking clock only Jack can hear.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
“It’s been a long trip,” I said, trying to deviate the conversation away from the drowned man.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Their provisional causes of death were all given as drowning at an inquest opening in Chelmsford, while Musa also died from a hypoxic ischaemic brain injury.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Some of the medical and scientific skepticism is a result of people feeling adrift in a rapidly changing world and drowning in competing information.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
It’s during a monologue in the seventh episode that we learn what haunts Wyck most: the guilt of causing his childhood friend’s drowning, which has weighed on him ever since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
"I was just in a trough, drowning in uncertainty," says Walaa Volidis, a Palestinian software engineer.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Everyone shouted and clapped, drowning out the music.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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