roar
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Lined with refrigerator-sized server systems, the room emits a low roar from its cooling systems and allows potential customers to remotely access and try out Etched’s chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
"When Japanese products first entered Europe, there was the same reaction, there were many questions," Zhang said, over the roar of engines being tested.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Or will it end up becoming as normal a part of our soundscape as the hum of passing traffic or the roar of a plane's engine thousands of feet above us?
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Needless to say, this argument doesn’t guarantee that the stock market will soon roar back.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
There was a din of crickets outside, and the pauseless roar of the river, and the stately world was illumined with pearly moonlight; but inside the log it was dark and hushed, like a crypt.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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Plus, Palantir shares surge and the AI trade roars back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The pair have a bit of rivalry with Price's on-stage roars and antics often provoking Littler into doing similar, but the teenager denied that Price can get "under his skin".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
I wear them onstage and I don’t think twice about it, but the audience roars with laughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
We went to the Norton Simon Museum together in November, on the kind of gray Pasadena day when the 210 Freeway roars in the background like white noise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
The roars of the crowd in the Royal Square taper off, like the winds of a storm drifting out to sea.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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He said hundreds of people survived only by scrambling up nearby slopes as floodwaters roared through the valley below.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The pair were greeted by huge cheers and were roared on throughout their opening 5-3 4-1 win against Great Britain's Lloyd Glasspool and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
When the Eaton fire roared through the area, Gwendolyn Mathers, Tail Town’s executive director, and a group of volunteers evacuated the cats, who stayed at volunteers’ and foster cat parents’ homes for two weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Live Nation has also sought more growth abroad, amid signs of a slowdown in the U.S., after concerts roared back to life when pandemic restrictions lifted.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Most of the crowd roared back or yelled with excitement.
From "A Monster of a Mystery (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #5)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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While roaring fires and vast plumes of smoke proved spectacular, a more creeping disaster was also spreading: drought.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
With a bald eagle, fighter jets, Air Force One, the Beast and race cars roaring through the nation’s capital, Trump certainly didn’t send the celebration out quietly.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
After a long, painful downdraft that erased more some $2.2 trillion in value, cryptocurrencies — and, notably, bitcoin — have come roaring back this week.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
If all goes according to plan, this gritty pocket of Kailua will soon be roaring with new machinery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The first night Dasch was away in Washington, Burger and Quirin shimmied and grooved at a roaring jazz club on New York's famous Fifty-Second Street.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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