noise
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I listen to music because it’s flawed, raw and human, not just noise to fill my day.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The image contained extra "noise" because the instrument's detectors were intentionally being kept warmer than their eventual operating temperature.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Speaking to reporters after the game, he indicated that the crowd noise affected the communication between the sideline and field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Understanding pain, understanding food noise, understanding something that actually affects you every day, can become differentiators,” said Martin Holst Lange, Novo’s chief scientific officer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
His white button-up shirt was plastered to his broad shoulders and his boots made a loud squelching noise as he walked.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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When the prospectors are at work -- sometimes for months at a time -- "we do hear the noises", Baziafla's interim leader David You Bi Bolou said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
A score by Latham and Shelby Gaines balances discordant, atonal tones with suspense-driven sound design that captures the creaking noises of the forest and the concealed dangers it holds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
After a few years in which mainstream culture at least made noises about retiring the worst excesses of early-aughts thinspo, the pendulum appears to be swinging back.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Nyepi, also known as the Day of Silence, is an annual holiday during which the usually bustling tourist island goes quiet, as people stay home and refrain from making loud noises.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He tried to block out the terrible noises around him.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
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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
Its suave directors noised about London that Australian credit was now so much better as to make a new issue of Australian bonds "attractive."
From Time Magazine Archive
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He was "Da Moan," a suddenly well-known young singer who is being noised about as "Sinatra with quality."
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
Stop your noising, and sit down by the hearth.
From The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. (John Millington) Synge