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rock

[rok] / rɒk /




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In the aforementioned Vogue article, Charli played the interviewer a track called Rock Music, featuring the lyric: "I think the dancefloor is dead, so now we're making rock music".

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

For years it was a symptom of working to keep up with Warped Tour, a punk rock circus on wheels.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Then it started getting into pop and light rock.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Washed up on a rock in the Atlantic after a naval disaster, Christopher Martin clings to life with ferocious tenacity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

But now, as it thundered over a sheer wall of rock, it was appalling in its fury.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Andrade said she has started a landscaping project at her friend's house, which involves removing rocks, putting down grass and painting fences.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

As that acidic water reacts with certain rocks -- limestone, for instance -- it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

The “Himalayan salt room” boasts giant salt rocks from Korea on the walls and ceiling.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Tied to the mast of his ship as he and his crew pass the singing sirens, adorned on the jagged rocks at sea, Odysseus screams out with pain and desire.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

As she reached the mouth of the cave, the first lightning flashed, the first thunder boomed, and the rain came down like a surf wave on the rocks.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Together for the better part of four decades, L7 did not faff around with small talk and pleasantries: They took the stage and rocked your face off.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

But the cluster of blue-paneled, four-story apartment buildings—constructed by a Turkish contractor—quickly crumbled into piles of twisted metal and plywood when the earthquakes rocked Venezuela’s northern coast.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

In Cabo San Lucas last month, a crowd rejoicing after Mexico’s victory over the Czech Republic rocked a car in the street.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

The back-to-back 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that rocked the Caribbean country within seconds of each other devastated this coastal state near Caracas, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

I sank down again and rocked back and forth, holding my toe.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

The painter on posing for the Cubist, why she sat in a rocking chair and how her life changed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Now that Graham’s gone, it’s only fitting that his imaginary grandma rest her bewigged skeleton in that great rocking chair in the sky.

From Salon Jul. 14, 2026

Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward has said despite needing to use a wheelchair he is not "ill or giving up" and resolved to "keep rocking until I'm dead".

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Spoken in a colloquial mix of English and Armenian, the recording became the introduction to “Canopies,” a song with the hushed, rocking cadence of a lullaby that Korkejian wrote from her grandmother’s perspective.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

“Yeah,” Susie replied, rocking back on the heels of her Mary Jane shoes.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce




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