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as in discordant
making loud, confused, and usually unharmonious sounds the noisy crowd marched up the street, shouting ever louder as they approached the palace

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as in buzzing
full of or characterized by the presence of noise the crowded auditorium was noisy, packed with excited theatergoers eager for the show to start the manufacturing plant was a decidedly noisy place, so we wore ear protection while we toured it

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Recent Examples of noisy There’s absolutely no need to permit noisy and destructive OHVs. Stephen Trimble, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025 The reports of children being able to distinguish between similar-sounding words and recognizing speech in noisy environments were the most exciting part of the paper for Nancy Young, who founded the Lurie Children’s Cochlear Implant program. Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025 Cregger wrote the screenplay in his garage next to a noisy refrigerator. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025 Kids were often outside on bikes and scooters and roller skates, playing tag or touch football, turning cartwheels on the lawns, being noisy. Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for noisy
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  • Sometimes, it was described as fantastical, depicting unrealistic and strange juxtapositions, as though the black people in his paintings had wandered into a genre or set of conditions totally discordant with what the viewer considered their actual reality.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • However, an investigation by The Bee this week found that Flora, 42, brings a history to the role that may be discordant with a party concerned with family values and fiscal conservatism.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • The unconventional thriller played like gangbusters to the buzzing New York crowd.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • At the time of his sentencing, Williams was a buzzing rapper, with his 2021 mixtape Shiesty Season, his only full-length project, peaking at Number Three on the Billboard 200.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • The former instantly adds a second layer of security against unwanted guests, and the latter emits an ultra-loud alarm while acting like a door stop wedge, scaring off any stranger who tries to enter your room.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Due to the struggles that the Florida State Seminoles have gone through this season following their opening upset win over the Alabama Crimson Tide, calls have begun getting louder for the program to consider firing head coach Mike Norvell.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
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  • But people in the control group didn’t have a noticeable change.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 23 Oct. 2025
  • To economists like Zandi, however, the country still remains at high risk of entering a downturn, with inflation, softness in the labor market and noticeable declines in consumer confidence weighing on their forecasts.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • Khan’s firm is just one of thousands across India catering to the booming demand of young Indians who dream of studying overseas for better education and career opportunities.
    Ivan Watson, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Gas prices are viewed as an important economic indicator, although lower prices don’t guarantee a booming economy, and recent news and data points are showing an economy in which wealthy Americans appear to be spending freely, while poorer households seem to be pulling back.
    Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • The Colts’ offense is absolutely humming.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • The 4-2-3-1 formation has been one of the most prominent systems used across Europe since the turn of the century, adopted by some of the best tacticians in modern football.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • While there’s some grappling between the big three, Amazon, Microsoft and Google remain by far the prominent cloud computing providers for AI applications, according to Emarketer senior analyst Jacob Bourne — and their futures depend at least in part on serving AI demand.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • This is a blatant breach of international law and territorial integrity of Lithuania.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • These youth protesters oppose the Ruto government over living standards, often blatant government corruption, and its heavy hand toward demonstrators.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Noisy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noisy. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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