belch
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Hence it all but backtracking on its emissions reductions and climate change mitigation goals, just so users can belch out more fake, dangerously misleading images and videos.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
One woman, doctors wrote, was “unable to voluntarily belch along with her childhood friends when this was a popular game.”
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
These landfills also belch methane, a powerful, planet-warming gas, on average at almost three times the rate reported to federal regulators, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
Baker Ski Area fires up the lifts this season, fewer of them will belch diesel fumes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
A moment later he let out a reverberating belch, and ten or so bees flew out of his mouth.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
Since June, Boyadzhyan has set off the horn in long belches in the late afternoon or at night, according to neighbors on Peach Avenue, an otherwise quiet residential area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Several innovative methods for reducing livestock methane emissions target enteric fermentation, which leads to methane belches.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023
At any given moment, Earth’s closest star belches fast, blisteringly hot particles known as the solar wind into space.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
The Indonesian island of Java’s tallest volcano, Semeru, sent an ash cloud nearly a mile into the air this week—the latest uptick in unrest from a mountain that belches ash and volcanic gases almost constantly.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 6, 2022
Its blue and orange flag is already flying and the boiler beside it belches steam, bearing cheerful witness to the breakfast within.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
On the train journey through steel country, he watched with awe the huge industrial furnaces that belched smoke and fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Sections of charred scaffolding fell from the burning apartment blocks in hellish scenes late on Wednesday, as flames inside apartments sometimes belched out through windows into a night sky that glowed orange.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
Gutted and blackened by fire, the nursing home belched smoke as a fire crew doused the last stubborn flames lapping at what remained of the roof.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025
In recent episodes, Bercow’s oratorial prowess came into full flower, as he belched forth merciless diatribes that made several bystanders go cross-eyed.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024
After his meal, Gogolev belched, yawned, excused himself for a few hours of “personal reflection,” and left them to their own devices.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
AFP journalists heard blasts in Bahrain's capital Manama, and saw black smoke belching from a major oil terminal in the United Arab Emirates port city of Fujairah.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
It is an important issue given the vast number of generators belching out fumes across Nigeria as a result of the woeful power supply.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024
This amount of air depends on the balance between the intake, production and elimination of gas through belching, flatulence or its consumption by the intestinal microbiota.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
The chimneys belching black smoke deliver a shock.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
“What the—” Mr. Ray whipped around after hearing the belching and hacking sound of spit-up, along with my chair sliding back from the under the table and my footsteps running up on him.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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