warble
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Frontman Cameron Winter anchors the chaos with his singular warble, and lyrics that swerve wildly between irreverence and incisiveness.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
It sounds fantastic, and it’s so loyal to every jaunty warble that audiences might not notice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Then comes that "no no no no please don't" passage, when Barrymore's voice shudders with a tender warble.
From Salon ● May 1, 2024
A passing gravitational wave generally stretches one arm more than the other, causing light to warble out of the device in sync with the wave.
From Science Magazine ● May 16, 2023
“Aaargh, the good die young,” muttered Hagrid, slumping low onto the table, a little cross-eyed, while Slughorn continued to warble the refrain.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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“Crying in a suit and tie,” she warbles, referring to her onstage look from a few years ago, then twisting the image into a joke with “But you should see the other guy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Sister Megan warbles softly at first, before putting the full might of her lungs and vocal cords behind the melody and lyrics.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024
“Today we recognize the men who’ve hacked the system,” says the narrator as a background singer warbles “hacked the system.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Through the commotion, Trippie commands attention with his vocals, vacillating between cartoonish warbles and metal screams in the blink of an eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
"What an exciting day!" she warbles as she attempts to straighten her wig, which has listed severely to the right.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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To date, we’ve placed one order on Amazon: an irregularly oriented clothing-rod system that fits my old, warbled closet.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025
“Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain,” a set of uncannily warped pop gems and warbled solitary hymns, had performed much like its predecessors: critically praised, commercially stillborn.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
RAYYAN, Qatar — Three different reporters got the microphone at various times and said they didn’t really have any questions, then warbled on with thanks and praise and pretty much euphoria.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2022
Alarms for the new quake came less than an hour after a quake alarms warbled in a nationwide earthquake simulation marking major quakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
When the fiddles warbled and the drums thumped, he grabbed Nan and paraded her around the dance stages until she was breathless with laughter.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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Just a few tracks depart from the slow tempos and warbling vocals, and their difference makes them sound more exciting than they might in isolation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The frontman seems to somehow anchor the rhythmic chaos, warbling words that swerve wildly between incisiveness and irreverence; wisdom and wonderful nonsense.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026
Like a trio of canaries in a coal mine warbling at the top of their lungs, three recent studies warn of various ways that global warming is drastically changing the planet.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2024
In January 2023, Lil Yachty took an abrupt left-turn on his album “Let’s Start Here,” a psychedelic experiment that traded bars and punch lines for warbling melodies drenched in reverb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
A Synthetic Music machine was warbling out a super-cornet solo.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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