drown
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Collectively, hundreds of thousands of these satellites would probably “completely drown out” the Milky Way and dimmer stars at certain times of night, Lawler said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
"It's a terrifying way to die - to drown," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Now that Cregger’s “Resident Evil” looks and feels a bit more like the classic games, I fear the effusive reaction will drown out Anderson’s franchise’s nutty strengths forever.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
And if he performs in the postseason, that will drown out any lingering what-ifs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
And if the water kept rising like this, they were all going to drown.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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It buys prestige, photographs, the roar that drowns out everything the host would rather you not hear.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
The crowd drowns in the second-long tension as they sit below teardrop-shaped papier-mâché stalactite hanging from handmade alien geodes on the ceiling.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
In Hamlet, Ophelia, his wife, a young noblewoman from Denmark, goes mad and drowns.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
Decades later he would tell a high-school English teacher that the scene in which Rabbit’s wife, Janice, accidentally drowns their baby “was the most intense writing of my life.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
My heart is thumping so loudly, it drowns out the sounds of laughter in the other room.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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But the praise for the severance packages has largely drowned out the critics.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
The sacred silence of formal dining rooms is being drowned out by bowling alleys and frozen-margarita machines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Of course, Hurts has a cheering section, but their voices are often drowned out by the chorus and echoes of criticism.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
I asked whether he knew the vigil had included testimonies from families in Gaza, which Lenkinski said the protesters had drowned out.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Laughter was a forgotten thing, as though their joy had been drowned along with their homes.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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GOLDIN: There’s an overriding sense of lack of purposefulness and this drowning in content that you’re constantly being fed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
The story, as it were, centers on a woman named Lisa Blupey, portrayed by stage veteran Jessica Vosk, who runs a small business selling socks but is drowning in financial statements and malfunctioning A.I.-powered platforms.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
Napa’s heralded Signorello Estate winery is drowning in debt, according to its bankruptcy filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
A post-mortem examination found that all three women died by drowning, Sussex Police said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
And while he was less likely to get hurt than a living animal, drowning was one of the most dangerous dangers to undead creatures.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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