trumpet
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Sax outdid himself by also designing a trumpet with 13 bells; this instrument, later built by his son Adolphe-Édouard, resembles a brass Hydra.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Big companies continue to trumpet return-to-office mandates, but the amount of time Americans work remotely is barely budging, suggesting WFH is here to stay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Monty Norman's surf guitar riff and John Barry's sweeping orchestral scores spawned an entire genre of spy music – full of minor key suspense and piercing stabs of trumpet.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
What keeps you playing the trumpet after all these years?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
He tried not to imagine what was happening just below the attic floor: every single thing they owned—their furniture, Cleo’s toys, Mom’s cookbooks, Dad’s trumpet and all his music—being covered with water.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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In the pop melody “Volveré,” she questions where her heart will remain once she leaves town, as muffled trumpets chime in at the outro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
There are brief Mexican accents, such as the mariachi-style trumpets that precede the market scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Not a day goes by that I don’t read a headline that trumpets the shortage of estrogen patches, which are used to treat the bothersome symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
Hundreds of protesters stood outside in subzero temperatures and made as much noise as possible—banging pots, blowing whistles, drumming on buckets, blowing trombones and trumpets.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
We could hear the sounds of trumpets and saxophones and other instruments echoing through the hallways, and the choir doing warm-ups in a large room next to our dressing room.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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When they landed the diving competition for the 2028 Summer Olympics last year, operators of the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena trumpeted it as a gold-medal achievement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
While the tech has changed since then, the principles the court trumpeted today are evergreen.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
In the past, the former New York property magnate has often trumpeted a negotiating style that relies on maximalist positions in order to extract more from a deal.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
Kennedy has said in podcast interviews that he takes “a ton” of vitamins and has trumpeted stories of people using vitamins to treat infectious disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
He banned screenings of the racist film The Birth of a Nation and trumpeted black heroes like the boxer Jack Johnson.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Big companies keep trumpeting return-to-office mandates, but the amount of time that Americans work remotely is barely budging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
But it wasn’t just Fox News trumpeting the study.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026
But China's own statements have been circumspect, saying it backs the ceasefire but hardly trumpeting its own diplomacy.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
But this year I started receiving emails in late September trumpeting an imminent Santa Claus rally.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
In his wroth, his bellows reminded Jon of a mammoth trumpeting.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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