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Players can now hum ocarina melodies themselves to trigger certain in-game actions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Then it was my turn to rediscover what the hum of an open line sounds like.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

But these sights are drained of their warmth, depicted with a cold, eerie hum that, when it bleeds into the roar of suffering miles away, becomes a deafening cacophony.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

An hour after the final whistle, the only sound heard at Ibrox was the hum of three lawnmowers gliding over the turf.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

He presses a button, and it squeals to life with a hum.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

“Making a phone call the old way fits in with that, just hearing the way the line hums before putting a coin in.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It sometimes seems that she’s a screen-generated hallucination, someone living inside of a machine that hums inside of another machine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

As he watches dishes cook, he hums along in Persian to the music playing in his restaurant.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

She hums her usual soothing tune, waiting for the water to boil.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

"It's been difficult for businesses to manage," Miller told AFP from his factory floor in Warren as a machine hummed nearby, cutting countertop material.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Our Bosch dishwasher hummed but refused to wash, so I replaced the clogged heat exchanger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

On a rainy Thursday afternoon in November, the Collaboratory hummed with volunteers packing donated home goods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

The fountain hummed beside him while students streamed past the gate—laughing, scrolling, carrying coffee, stubbornly keeping going.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025

The machine hummed and rejected the disc once more.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

"It is trading the gap between what companies earn today and what they still have to spend to keep the AI machine humming tomorrow."

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

In the spring, it was far-flung corners of rural America, where one promising new data center turned out to be AI servers humming inside what appeared to be a converted chicken coop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

When the waiting becomes almost too much, Deborah starts humming a few bars of a familiar song.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

When Lucy* puts her child to bed, she hears a constant humming.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

She was showing it to us, humming the music under her breath as she moved through the port de bras and pique turns.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day