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The letter sequence "v-e-r-b" in reverberate might make you think at first of such word-related brethren as proverb, verbal, and verbose, all of which derive from the Latin noun verbum, meaning "word." In fact, reverberate comes from a much different source: the Latin verb verberare, meaning "to whip, beat, or lash," which is related to the noun verber, meaning "rod." Reverberate entered the English language in the 15th century, and one of its early meanings was "to beat, drive, or cast back." By the early 1600s, it began to appear in contexts associated with sound that repeats or returns the way an echo does.
Examples of reverberate in a Sentence
Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
Three Fed rate cuts have now resulted in the Federal funds rate being lowered by 75 basis points, and that's reverberating throughout the wider borrowing climate.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
Meet the yoga teachers whose lessons reverberate through us long after class is over.
—The Editors, Outside, 15 Dec. 2025
The comments quickly reverberated through prediction markets.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
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“Reverberate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reverberate. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.
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