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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
Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Yet the old marketing stuck, and the million-dollar-per-team meme continues to reverberate, echoed uncritically in recent media reports from ESPN, The Athletic and Sports Illustrated, among others.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 25 Nov. 2025
Oscillations also reverberate through their interiors, shaking them up.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Nov. 2025
News of Pietranton’s death quickly reverberated among colleagues past and present, among those know knew and loved him.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Nov. 2025
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“Reverberate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reverberate. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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