clatter
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“Couture’s” three principals rarely interact with one another, but those meaningful exchanges argue that, amid the mad clatter of the everyday, a brief, unguarded moment with a stranger can be supremely restorative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
There’s Mrs. Duggan’s sitting room, for example, with its “faint, high whistling of the gas fire”; and “the weary clatter of half-hearted washing-up” in a depressing cafe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Aromatics are where things begin: ginger, garlic, onions and their cousins; the soft clatter of mirepoix or soffritto; a bloom of spices warming in fat.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2026
Dishes clatter, steam bursts from large cooking pots and music is seeping through the bustling chatter of Russian pensioners, hunched over bowls of free meals in a Saint Petersburg soup kitchen.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
There was a clatter of dishes, and after a while the talking stopped.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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“Slap the City” clatters and coos with R&B falsetto and at least makes the blank nihilism of Drake’s dating life feel self-aware.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
She watches a humanoid robot totter around a demonstration kitchen until it trips on a chair and clatters to the ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The 19-year-old's quickest time on the board so far is a 1:18.667 and on his latest run, clatters the kerbs in the borrowed Haas.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
That’s saved in style as the Frenchman clatters a winner home.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2022
She tries to put her cup back in the saucer, but this time she misses completely and it clatters and spills tea all over the table.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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But the moment that may have sealed Argentina’s fate came in the final minutes of second-half stoppage time when Enzo Fernández clattered into Spanish center back Pau Cubarsí at midfield, flipping him head over heels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The United Press International and Associated Press teletypes clattered away in a corner of the Columbus Citizen-Journal’s newsroom where I worked as a reporter in the 1970s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
After being rocked by a deep Alcaraz return at 15-30, he clattered another forehand into the net on championship point.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
But moments later Davide Bartesaghi clattered into Mikael Ellertsson, leaving Stanciu with the task of beating France goalkeeper Mike Maignan and taking a shock three points.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
When she tried to lift the oar, it slipped out of her hands and clattered to the bottom of the boat.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Once it missed the dishwasher altogether, sending a plate clattering to the floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Andres Cubas escaped a booking after clattering into Adrien Rabiot.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
“Ups & Downs” is an instrumental with a droning keyboard—perhaps a harmonium—along with a clarinet and clattering percussion that sounds like a drum kit being slowly unpacked from its case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
He’s jury-rigged a burglar alarm with foam so it makes a clattering sound loud enough for the neighbor’s Ring camera to pick up, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2025
There, young women sit at clattering Typex machines—bulky black typewriters with spinning spools of white tape.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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