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Noun
  • Beer cups flew throughout SoFi Stadium as Jiménez stood tall at the penalty spot admiring the bedlam.
    Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Take Laurent Garnier, who played the song to a gleeful Barcelona crowd shortly after its release, sending them and more than 70,000 viewers into bedlam.
    Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Such evidence could support the view that incessant loud noise amounts to torture or cruel treatment towards cetaceans, in turn galvanizing support for a new right to be free from such harm.
    David Gruber, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
  • One appeal of the group’s messaging is its peculiarly British sensibility; the statements tend to cut through the noise.
    Anna Russell, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The madhouse of awards season and all its many, many controversies — not to mention an ongoing parade of natural and man-made disasters — has until now perhaps overshadowed some of the year’s lower-stakes joys.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
  • But things move fast in the Goodison madhouse.
    Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • When Golden took the stage, there was a roar of cheers and fireworks exploded over the city.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • While the roar of the engines and smell of burning rubber are very familiar to fans of stock car racing, there’s a distinct allure about NHRA events.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • From the foothills of the Berkshires arises a venerable strain of American madness, the poetry of hokum—the old weird America of medicine shows and travelling circuses and carnivals.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
  • All three were captured in the wild and spent time in circuses and other zoos before coming to Barcelona.
    JOSEPH WILSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Now, as his reckless tariffs rattle markets and the stock market tumbles, the real cost of his policies is coming into view.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Nailing a loose floorboard into the joist below should eliminate the rattle or squeak.
    Clark Hodgin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • It's aimed towards trucks and sport utilities, whose designs usually include all-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, and whose chassis are more vulnerable to wheel chatter and heavier loads.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Panthers: Jalon Walker, LB, Georgia AS: There’s been a lot of chatter about where Walker should play at the NFL level.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Yet this clarion call is too often lost in the din of daily life.
    Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
  • While the din in the arena got ever louder, there was only silence in Wright’s head.
    Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Babel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babel. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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