noise
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South Africa’s Cheetah Plains now uses electric Land Cruisers for what it markets as its “silent game drives” through Sabi Sand Nature Reserve, trading engine noise for the rustle of elephants munching grass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Apple Watches around the room warned of “dangerous” noise conditions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
For investors enthralled by soaring corporate profits, headlines about the painful consequences from climate change are largely just background noise, experts say.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
They also cited "ongoing noise nuisance caused by anti-social, late-night firework use in recent days" and also advised people against using disposable barbecues.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Time slows, the noise of the restaurant dulls.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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These noises do not serve a direct purpose.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
The sound effects that Smart Play produces replace the crash noises and pew-pew sounds that ordinarily come out of my son’s mouth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Tuchel must hope he is not having to keep his fingers crossed while making those optimistic noises about James' fitness.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
A Los Angeles firefighter testified that he saw flashes of light and heard loud noises that sounded like fireworks around midnight near the neighborhood closest to where the blaze sparked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
One of them made clucking noises like a chicken.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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It increased the noised around the Dutchman at a time when he needed it least.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Jones tried it on last year and Scotland won at Twickenham, he noised them up again before the 2019 game and Jones' team blew a 31-0 lead.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2022
In April, Moscow noised the notion of a joint meeting of the nations of Eastern and Western Europe to discuss their "collective security."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Nurmi's retainers noised his plight about the train.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their ménage on a humbler scale than heretofore.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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The tour was just too nice until Skelton and Valetini started noising up the Lions and bringing their enormous physicality to proceedings.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
Musk’s approach to noising up his cars has also created some unexpected issues, like lithium-fueled flatulence.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2023
I started noising around that I was frantic to join ... the Japanese Army.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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"There! they're noising now!" said the first voice, while a whimper or two came from far back in the wood.
From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville
Because the stars pointed that the end was nearing, the black brood came behind again, and followed, noising.
From The Were-Wolf by Laurence Housman