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chirring

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present participle of chirr

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At night, breeze wafts through louvres, circulated by whirring ceiling fans.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026
Inside one of American Royal’s vast new barns, the smell of fresh paint still lingers as the hum of whirring drills and construction equipment fills the space just over 15 days until its first event on the new campus.

— Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026

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Both are keeping growth humming at a reasonably steady pace and maintaining the unemployment rate at a healthy level just above 4%.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
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

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Pattinson, for his part, could not stop running his hand through his hair and whispering excitedly to his nearby partner, Suki Waterhouse.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 6 Sep. 2026
The defendant and his attorney, Michael Sanft, wrap arms around one another, whispering a few final thoughts before the moment of judgment.

— Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026

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Scientists previously created tiny diving suits for Madagascar hissing cockroaches that could be used in perilous search operations, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 3 Sep. 2026
But delivering that level of craft in a high-octane room where the hissing espresso machine competes with the bassline?

— Carly Boers, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026

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Imagine Marlon James in a crisp, white shirt and conservative tie, droning through another day of brainless ad copy.

— Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2026
His robust, under-appreciated score is composed with droning synthesizer undercurrents, old-fashioned action adventure fanfares, and intense rapid-fire tracks punctuated by brass exclamations and roaring percussion.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 July 2026

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Tonight in Los Angeles, Hollywood is buzzing ahead of the biggest night in television, as stars of the small screen storm the Emmys.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
The distillery is situated in the heart of Richmond’s Scott’s Addition, a former industrial district now buzzing with craft breweries and restaurants.

— Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2026

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One, that it was made not just of ash and soot, but of metal, glass and concrete; and two, that soon this shrapnel would be whizzing by — and perhaps through — my head.

— Timothy Townsend, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
First and foremost is, roughly, that thou shalt not think about ordinary objects presently whizzing through ordinary space.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of whizzing

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By the 11th game of the third set, Keys was hitting herself in the head with her racket, taking her cap off and sighing deep breaths that were either meant to steady her or out of exasperation.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
The soundtrack—by the frequent Hans Zimmer collaborator David Fleming—is a delight, a polyphonic mood board of ghost-clangs, spooky bassoons, lyrical electro-motifs, and sighing sea themes.

— James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

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