rumble
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She has been leading a team of researchers in Australia, Canada and the UK to find out if people can be trained to rumble the AI imposters.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Some of the damaged buildings groaned with each new rumble of the earth, as Venezuela endured more aftershocks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
While the afternoons blazed, Tim sailed Melville’s waves of prose, alert to the rumble of an epic whale beneath their surface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The plant’s low rumble reverberated across the surrounding desert, unusually green from a recent rain.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
The massive screen overhead might simulate the day and night sky, but it won’t have the crack of a lightning strike or rumble of thunder.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
In summer 2024, there were rumbles that Germany would sell down part of its then 16.5% stake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
As the first-quarter earnings season rumbles on, those lofty expectations have looked justified so far: The pace of earnings growth reported by firms so far has dramatically surpassed analysts’ expectations.
From MarketWatch ● May 3, 2026
The plans come as a months-long diplomatic row between Japan and China over comments Takaichi made on Taiwan rumbles on.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
No. But it was full of humanity, scenery and comforting clangs and rumbles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
A truck rumbles down the street, and I scrunch my shoulders up.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
They rumbled through like a runaway train, dominating with 55 runs over four losers’-bracket wins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
The vehicle rumbled into the sky, generating a huge plume on the ground and a powerful wave of noise, according to a SpaceX livestream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Just two days earlier, a magnitude 4.4 rumbled in the desert about 60 miles north of Sin City, where some people reported weak shaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Quins had been warned over repeated infringements by referee Luc Ramos and when Will Evans was sin-binned, Sale took full advantage as Cowan-Dickie rumbled over at the back of a line-out maul.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
The god’s voice rumbled like an oncoming front.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
That thunder you hear rumbling is Walt Disney yelling down: What’s the point?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
An eyewitness told the Daily Tribune newspaper that she heard a loud rumbling moments before the collapse.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
Its internal speaker plays a rumbling soundtrack that sends the drumsticks attached to the instrument flittering, giving the sense of a ghostly presence tapping out a brooding dirge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Thousands of metres beneath the ground, amid suffocating heat, lies one of the keys to Poland's rumbling mining sector -- and the world economy.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
A maintenance worker was in the reactor building at unit 2 when he heard rumbling in the basement.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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