whoosh
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“We are not seeing a big whoosh in the economy. We are seeing a strengthening recovery. It’s a cyclical recovery that is eating away at spare capacity from a cyclical low point,” Conway said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
The sling whips over the top with a whoosh.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
In the fires, palms went up with a whoosh, like matchsticks in hell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
“Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s intimate portrait of Leonard Bernstein, takes flight with a terrific whoosh of exuberance.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
The air was charged with the smack and whoosh of slapped pucks.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
Prescient stock picks and whooshes of inflows have vaulted its assets under management to more than $20 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Within five milliseconds of that contact, the spinning blade comes to a dramatic brake, and the blade whooshes below the table.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
The commotion and noise are unnerving; cars speed by so close you can feel whooshes as they pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025
Its whooshes seep into the room, neatly complementing the motion of a computer-animated, widescreen video projection, “Lightscape of the Silence.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
I always thought of her as one of those people who suddenly whooshes into being at the sound of the first bell in the morning, and winks out again when the clock strikes three-thirty.
From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman
In Asia, Seoul stocks whooshed 75 percent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index bounced 28 percent and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rocketed more than 26 percent.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
It’s fabulous, but the score can feel whooshed into a blender’s whirlwind.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
We whooshed down toward the earth and back up again.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
And life being life, soon another 12 years have whooshed past, bringing the story into roughly the present day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Cars whooshed past in a rush of exhaust.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Liza N. remembers an aspect of it that images can’t convey: “I will never forget the whooshing sound it made. You could hear it from the east and travel westward. It was magical.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
People often describe it as ringing, buzzing, hissing, or whooshing in one or both ears.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
"And then, just all of a sudden, there was just a really loud bang and lots of whooshing air, like the door burst open," a flight attendant said.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
That lemon drop was a stunt in itself: made with lots of swirling and pouring and whooshing about, yet somehow simultaneously effortless.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024
Theo’s happy giggles rose up, whooshing over Nate like a breeze.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
