burp
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“I definitely wouldn’t do anything carbonated before a game. Makes you burp and all that kind of stuff.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Chief emission culprits are livestock farming, particularly cattle, which release planet-warming methane when they burp.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
It’s a problem that because of his net worth and lack of filter, he can get in a momentary snit, burp out an angry post, and send Washington scurrying.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2025
Rosenthal is among more than a thousand people who have received a procedure to help them burp since 2019 when an Illinois doctor first reported the steps of the intervention in a medical journal.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
Like I wasn't going to feed her enough, or burp her the right way.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
These enormous cosmic "burps" can carry material across vast distances and can significantly affect the evolution of the galaxies that contain them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Even under the worst kind of duress, they don’t want to flee their homes, their belongings, certainly not their families, despite the threatening burps of Vesuvius.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
There are farts and burps for laughs, but mostly the show is about self-love and acceptance — about how goodness can and will prevail, even in the darkest of circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
This new Oasis scene seems to feature fewer blokes with sideburns, baggy nylon football shirts and those loud burps that follow swiftly-downed cans of Carling.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024
But the fake burps—well, it would be tough to be more interesting than fake burps.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
Those plants are eaten by animals and then methane is burped out during digestion or released as flatulence or through decaying manure.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2023
Barrymore who was at the head of the table, burped every few minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2023
One British company has even developed a wearable harness for cows that oxidizes methane as it’s burped out.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
As cows graze, bacteria in their stomachs help break the fiber down, a metabolic process that builds protein-dense muscle but also methane as a byproduct, which gets burped out.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
Laila remembered how Wajma had covered her mouth, burped; how her tongue had gone exploring between her few remaining teeth.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
It’s just like clockwork, if I have any solids during the day of the show, around song seven, I start burping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Mulaney, 42, also shared the same hospital photo on his Instagram grid and added a short video of their daughter spitting up on him while he was burping her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024
Moody asked if Bastian could try it to cure his burping problem.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
“I didn’t know if they were hugging or burping each other.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
The man returned the infant he'd been burping to the crib, re-propped her bottle, came to where Claire was, and looked down at Thirty-six.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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