hum
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The hum can be difficult to detect outdoors.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Sufferers have described symptoms such as hearing a low hum, clicks, squeals and "grinding metal" while others reported intense pressure on the skull, dizziness and nausea.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The registers hum with a steady din of beeps and automated “please begin scanning” messages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Amid the hum of Woodcat Coffee in Echo Park, Azniv Korkejian pauses in front of a wall of family photographs mounted on faded construction paper and tucked into repurposed frames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Nathan started to hum the melody for the Change song and then sang a few words, but the ice did not respond at all when Nathan instructed the water to melt.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
Even on an early Tuesday afternoon in July, the brightly lit, bustling space hums with high energy as a lunchtime crowd of New Yorkers tightly navigates the narrow aisles with oversized canvas bags.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
One scene in particular, in which Coley explores Sonya’s room, touching everything, hums with the strange excitement of being a specially invited new confidante.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
As he watches dishes cook, he hums along in Persian to the music playing in his restaurant.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Its lab, with a row of bikes parked inside the front door, hums quietly with workers in protective gear moving between beakers, kilns and mineral samples being tested for durability and composition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
Machinery hums in the distance: pistons throbbing, belts turning.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Millions of Mexican Americans like myself have stumbled through the himno nacional during this World Cup, whereas in previous years, we might have just hummed some bars or stayed silent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
At the bustling centre, sewing machines hummed as women stitched blankets, while others stacked thin mattresses ready to be handed out.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
Our Bosch dishwasher hummed but refused to wash, so I replaced the clogged heat exchanger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
The fountain hummed beside him while students streamed past the gate—laughing, scrolling, carrying coffee, stubbornly keeping going.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025
She hummed along to Rimsky-Korsakov on the radio; she’d take a moment to sit down at the piano in the evening if she got a chance.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Like so many sitcoms, “Tires” revolves around a star comic, but Gillis comes off in a new light thanks to an alter-ego character and the ensemble humming around him, especially co-star Steve Gerben.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Business has been humming along, Brian Keeler at renovation company West Shore Homes told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
“We are made from humming triangles,” she remembered of another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Do you sometimes notice a deep buzzing or humming noise that seems to have no identifiable source?
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
She sashayed out of the kitchen, and a moment later, I heard her in her bedroom, humming “One Fine Day” by the Chiffons along with the radio and sweeping the floor.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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