All the hubbub in the airport made it hard to hear the flight announcements.
the hubbub surrounding the film star
We went to the country to escape the hubbub of the city.
What's all the hubbub about?
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After all this hubbub sent shockwaves throughout the group, the two of them can sit down and communicate in the name of civility.—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025 The domestic scene—affairs and betrayals, sudden deaths and new romances, all the hubbub of the private lives of these great and would-be great men—always undercuts the grand designs of political philosophy.—Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025 Four Seasons Resort Oahu at Ko Olina is located on Oahu’s southwestern shore, away from the hubbub of Waikiki.—Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2025 The anniversary was marked not just by the day itself, but by the media hubbub, memorials and tributes that surrounded it.—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hubbub
Word History
Etymology
perhaps of Irish origin; akin to Scottish Gaelic ub ub, interjection of contempt
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