burring

verb

present participle of burr
as in humming
to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound the pitch burred past the batter's ear

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  1. humming
  2. buzzing
  3. zipping
Verb
  • To build the president’s White House ballroom, roughly 250 workers have been pouring concrete and installing steel framework, keeping the site humming for 20 hours a day, seven days a week.
    — Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026
  • As the Yeomen continued losing games last year, the larger college-football machine kept humming at campuses across the country.
    — Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of humming
Verb
  • Jourdan Rodrigue has a list of 15 young players the NFL is buzzing about before the regular season starts.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • In eighth grade at Hickory Creek, Ross already had high school track coaches buzzing about her.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of buzzing
Verb
  • Neutrinos, which are produced in the sun as well as other astrophysical sources and are constantly zipping through the Earth, are notoriously difficult to measure.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Facing second-and-4 in the second quarter, Browning took a shotgun snap, and Anudike-Uzomah was there in an instant, zipping by Tampa Bay third-string tackle Marshall Fournier for a free shot on Browning.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of zipping
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“Burring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burring. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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