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The discovery of coronavirus in the bathroom of an unoccupied apartment in Guangzhou, China, suggests the airborne pathogen may have wafted upwards through drain pipes, an echo of a large SARS outbreak in Hong Kong 17 years ago.

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Between 2011 and 2015, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft mapped the craters of perpetual darkness, and confirmed that they match up with the pattern of radar echoes.

This could exacerbate the problem Eli Pariser pointed out in The Filter Bubble years ago—that is, the tendency of the modern internet to shunt users into echo chambers where they are shielded from contrary views.

Around the world, seismometers don’t just pick up loud echoes of earthquakes rumbling through the subsurface.

Then, they listen for the echoes from the sound waves bouncing off objects in their surroundings.

I hope I can be forgiven for finding this echo more than merely coincidental.

There was only one phone left and when it would ring, the bell would echo, oddly, off the walls.

Later in an Echo of Moscow interview Kadyrov said that the operation would be over in 20 minutes.

In a grim echo of Michael Brown, the white New York City cop who placed Eric Garner in a banned chokehold wasn't charged.

Echo has documented all the crises of the post-Perestroika era, wars, conflicts, scandals, and protests.

The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe.

"Yes, Alessandro," she answered faintly, the gusts sweeping her voice like a distant echo past him.

The loping pursuit of that nameless, shapeless Something sounded like an echo in his head.

He was congratulating himself that he might still be in time, when the faint echo of firearms was borne to him on the breeze.

Even the conflict which had raged along the borders of Missouri and Kansas had only come as a faint echo among the Ozarks.

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On this page you'll find 119 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to echo, such as: imitation, parallel, reflection, repetition, reverberation, and answer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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