din
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Rising above the din of voices in the lobby of the J.W.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
"With these costs, I'm going to have to ask for more money from customers" for the ride, said Marcel, amid the habitual din of engines and horns blaring in the Kinshasa sunshine.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Though they sometimes escalate into larger-scale military drills, these maneuvers, which once dominated news headlines, quieted to a din as they became routine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
In the more upmarket north of Tehran, many residents appeared to have left, with the meowing of cats and birdsong replacing the usual din of traffic jams.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
“If anyone pukes, the other squadron wins,” Bull shouted above the din.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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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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But the dins last night were"—— "Tell me not of such folly.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John
‘There’s nobbut t’ missis; and shoo’ll not oppen ’t an ye mak’ yer flaysome dins till neeght.’
From Wuthering Heights by Brontë, Emily
The sound of the machinery dins in my ears.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van
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
For 53 days the Voice, harsh, flat and earnest, had dinned from railroad sidings, auditoriums, all around the radio dial.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A tormenting question dinned last week in the brain of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss: "Where will my wife and the children be safe?"
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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They had been dinned into her these past few months, the thousand details of a new admission.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
Haven't eaten in the dinning room in years, no need to spend that kind of money when the dishes in the tavern are so terrific.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2016
And then a great thudding and bumping, like huge rams dinning on the ground.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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