cacophony
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The cafe is a cacophony of color in an expanse of desert brown.
From Los Angeles Times â Sep. 22, 2026
The recorded confessions, layered over one another until they become an unintelligible cacophony, represent just one piece of the 25 paintings, photographs and interactive displays in the exhibition.
From Los Angeles Times â Sep. 4, 2026
Certainly the music played a big part, the children busking on every spare square of pavement, a joyful cacophony of tin whistle, fiddle, bodhrán.
From BBC â Aug. 10, 2026
And while Grande later insisted the break was pre-planned and not “reactive or impulsive,” there’s no doubt the announcement was timed to dull the cacophony of both the jeers and cheers.
From Salon â Aug. 8, 2026
A cacophony of boos and catcalls rolled down the grandstand for a full two minutes.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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But much of the prominent fiction of 2022 met the moment and captured this fragmentation, thick with code-switching, style-shifting and cacophonies of anxious narration.
From Los Angeles Times â Dec. 20, 2022
The cacophony of viewpoints in a nation unafraid to express them seemed to yield what such cacophonies often yield: muddle.
From Washington Post â Nov. 21, 2022
The cacophonies indirectly and directly harm animals, of course, interfering with their reproductive patterns, reducing their habitats, fragmenting their communities and sometimes killing them outright.
From Scientific American â Mar. 24, 2022
But the score is beautiful, with patterns and loops and cacophonies that echo Evan’s mind.
From New York Times â Aug. 8, 2016
His screams, his grunts, his discords, and harsh jarring cacophonies were an outrage to the very name of music.
From The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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