foghorn
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"The findings suggest the brain's norepinephrine system is far more like a targeted postal network than a foghorn," said Karel Svoboda, director of Neural Dynamics at the Allen Institute and study co-author.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
"A person on board then used the ship's foghorn, waking the animal, which moved to another location."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
For now, no one’s blowing the foghorn warning.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
Once a prehistoric denizen of the deeps, it comes ashore on a tsunami tide, tall as a thunderhead, shrugging off artillery as it bellows a foghorn scream.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023
To one side was a man named Callas with a snore like a miniature foghorn itself; on the other was Dr. Philobosian, who wept in his sleep.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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