drumming
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Bartholdi and Laboulaye spent about 10 years drumming up funding for the project, and the show presents a compendium of 19th-century commercial imagery, derived from magazines, posters and advertisements meant to publicize the statue-in-progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Taylor was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and was drawn to drumming from an early age.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Pant hooting and buttress drumming are both part of the male chimpanzee display, suggesting that accumulative stone throwing might represent a modification of this common behavior.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Diles reclines comfortably on the instrumental configuration that makes so many rock bands sing: acoustic and electric guitars, bass, and the cool, angular drumming of Raúl Ponce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
With each step, she’d fallen into a cadence, a steady drumming rhythm that began in her feet and worked its way up her ribs until her heartbeat attuned to it.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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