- present participle of rumble.
rumbling
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The crack of the bat echoed the thunder that had been rumbling outside of the roofed ballpark for much of the afternoon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Talk of City signing 18-year-old Ayyoub Bouaddi has been rumbling all summer, and the club have reportedly held talks with the Moroccan, who would cost an estimated £85m.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
But the construction noise, rumbling trucks and constant influx of workers has the couple at their wits’ end.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The plant houses 14 rumbling pumps in two football-field sized wings and is one of the most powerful water lifting systems in the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
They’d passed the yellow brick road that led to the center of town and cut through the entrance to the Cursed Forest when Seven heard a low, rumbling growl.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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People with well-recognised Cuban-American surnames – like Bacardi and Babun – chat around the pool about the lamentable state of the island's economy, and share titbits of gossip about the latest political rumblings.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
EcoAlbania and other environmental groups have been fighting this fight since 2021, when rumblings first emerged about the sale of Sazan island and the Vjosa Narta area.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Geologists have determined the sounds are from shifting tectonic plates, creating underground rumblings that are amplified by the topography.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The incident has also drawn rumblings from some observers that OpenAI is taking advantage of it to market the power of its state-of-the-art models.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
More rumblings broke out, and Newt wrote something on his pad, shaking his head the whole time—which gave Thomas a tinge of hope.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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