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echoing

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verb

present participle of echo
1
as in ringing
to continue or be repeated in a series of reflected sound waves my calls for help echoed off the walls of the abandoned mine shaft

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2
as in repeating
to say after another the little brats sassed the babysitter by echoing in a singsong voice everything she said

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Recent Examples of echoing
Verb
The area in and around the park was for many years the scene of protests, demonstrators’ chants echoing within the halls of the White House. Matt Viser, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026 Speaking on Israel’s right-wing Channel 14 news, Katz said Israel would keep striking in southern Lebanon, echoing Netanyahu. Aditi Sangal, CNN Money, 1 June 2026 The arrival in New Orleans also featured ceremonial moments, including a 21-gun salute and the sound of ship horns echoing along the Mississippi River as the fleet marked the start of the national celebration. Sarah Alegre, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026 When the monster arrives, the red-haired woman does display a sense of self-preservation and flees in terror, perhaps echoing Clark’s ex-wife’s feelings towards him. Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 Zelenskyy indicated battlefield gains over the next six months could strengthen Ukraine's hand in future peace talks, echoing remarks made last week by Brigadier General Andriy Biletsky, a top Ukrainian commander. Richard Escobedo, CBS News, 31 May 2026 The post generated dozens of comments, with many readers echoing his sentiments. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026 International cave-diving teams are navigating jagged, zero-visibility passages while weighing whether to guide the exhausted, untrained villagers underwater or wait for receding floodwaters, echoing dilemmas from Thailand’s 2018 cave rescue. Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 Still, data and intellectual property are siphoned off to rich countries, echoing centuries-old dynamics of colonial extraction. Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for echoing
Adjective
  • Zendaya and Domingo do great, resonant work, but even their empathetic portraits of suffering people can’t make this strange coda cohere.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 1 June 2026
  • The track, which is the resonant chime of the Sacred Bell of Great King Seongdeok, blends with the room's spatial stillness and imagery, setting the experience in motion.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
Verb
  • The phone wouldn't stop ringing for WEEKS.
    Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
  • But parking will be limited due to security perimeters ringing stadiums.
    Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 2 June 2026
Verb
  • Robinson’s first go at the drill was so bad defensive line coach Austin Clark forced him to do it again, and then again, repeating the coached technique until the Dolphins’ 2024 first-round pick got it right.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 7 June 2026
  • People left theaters repeating lines, sharing jokes, and reliving scenes with their fam.
    Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 6 June 2026
Adjective
  • The pacing is erratic and the sonorous voice-over narration doesn’t help either.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 13 May 2026
  • Metals are particularly sonorous, as anyone who has been around toddlers (and pots and pans) can testify.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 May 2026
Verb
  • Dimon and Dalio aren’t sounding so sure about this.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 June 2026
  • In Riverside County in California, the local sheriff — and a Republican gubernatorial candidate — seized hundreds of thousands of ballots, sounding alarm bells throughout the election administration community.
    Ashley Lopez, NPR, 6 June 2026
Verb
  • Instead of simply quoting an original source without the full context of the surrounding information, the users can choose whether or not to follow the link and better understand the veracity of the author’s claim or statement.
    Jeremy Saks, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • In her preface, Corey offers a note of apology for the topic at hand, quoting the author David Sinclair—who, in writing about the Spice Girls, observed that his subject would require him to defend the group’s honor and his own.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
Adjective
  • There has never quite been a critical or scholarly consensus about them, but Bellini, whose music is suspended somewhere between Rossini’s precise brilliance and Donizetti’s rhetorical force, can move audiences with his melodic facility.
    Arya Roshanian, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
  • Where most conversations are half-silent, important figures in Rimbaud’s life are embodied by musical instruments, ranging from overbearing tubas to melodic strings, depending on who’s speaking and their place in the story.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 2 June 2026
Verb
  • The Sweet Spot Between Design and Fragrances Olfactory Signals’ echo is resonating further afield among design-native brands.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 4 June 2026
  • Based on what Brigette Balagot, who is on the in-house design team at Frameology, is seeing with her clients, memento walls are resonating because people are looking for fun ways to incorporate personal items beyond just photos.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 June 2026

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