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Recent Examples of beep
The construction worker at the bottom looks like an orange dot, and the sound of beeping and gravel moving rings through the area.
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Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2026
The woman started trying to remove monitors from her body, in hopes that the machines would start beeping and get the attention of staff.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
If the Islanders won, my father would gleefully beep his horn on the way out of the Coliseum parking lot and listen to post-game radio the whole ride home.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
If there are any issues during cleaning, the machine will beep.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 Aug. 2025
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Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2026
The woman started trying to remove monitors from her body, in hopes that the machines would start beeping and get the attention of staff.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
If the Islanders won, my father would gleefully beep his horn on the way out of the Coliseum parking lot and listen to post-game radio the whole ride home.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
If there are any issues during cleaning, the machine will beep.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beep
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Set the scene This is the city's most enviable address, where Orchard Road's buzzing energy meets the serenity of the Singapore Botanical Gardens.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Apr. 2026
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Inside the Trivium Corporate Center manufacturing site in Catawba County, the air buzzed with the hum and loud drill sounds of production.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Mar. 2026
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Should both signal paths somehow fail the system is packaged with Mercedes rear-wheel steer option, which dials in up to 10 degrees of rear wheel steering input, and a third input will kick in to control the rear-wheel steering to enable the driver to pull over slowly.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
2 Apr. 2026
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Investment firms of ultra-wealthy families dialed back their deal-making in March as the Iran conflict rattled the market.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2026
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Efforts to reach Das and Cooper — including by phoning numbers and sending letters to addresses that appeared to be associated with them — were unsuccessful.—
David Hilzenrath,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
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Several days passed before the husband phoned us.—
Jason Rezaian,
New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2026
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Uncle Vernon had telephoned the police on more than one occasion.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Mar. 2026
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An hour or so later, the Macclesfield manager, John Rooney, telephoned him.—
Stuart James,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Beep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beep. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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