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as in buzzed
to be copiously supplied
one restaurant was humming with diners, while a neighboring eatery was practically empty
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as in zipped
to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound
a helicopter hummed overhead
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Recent Examples of hummed
Offense has largely hummed when Bo Nix is decisive.
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Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Lost in our mind frequency, which hummed loud now like a drone.
—Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Cicadas hummed as the sun set over the Kansas City, Kansas, Unified Government Municipal Building Tuesday, as a crowd of somber faces turned towards a Kansas City, Kansas Police Department vehicle.
—Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
Interstate 10 hummed with cars rushing north toward Phoenix, drivers pushing to get ahead of what was bearing down on them.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The tension between us hummed just below the threshold of language.
—Eileen Kelly, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2025
My class hummed with quiet resentment.
—Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Instead, this publication has hummed with creative, ennobling intellectual tension and debate.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Apr. 2025
Yoshi hummed, bobbing his head.
—Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Lost in our mind frequency, which hummed loud now like a drone.
—Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Cicadas hummed as the sun set over the Kansas City, Kansas, Unified Government Municipal Building Tuesday, as a crowd of somber faces turned towards a Kansas City, Kansas Police Department vehicle.
—Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
Interstate 10 hummed with cars rushing north toward Phoenix, drivers pushing to get ahead of what was bearing down on them.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The tension between us hummed just below the threshold of language.
—Eileen Kelly, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2025
My class hummed with quiet resentment.
—Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Instead, this publication has hummed with creative, ennobling intellectual tension and debate.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Apr. 2025
Yoshi hummed, bobbing his head.
—Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hummed
Verb
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Doors being locked and customers needing to be buzzed in.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
15 Oct. 2025
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But even as the house buzzed with happiness, Shannel was battling a nagging headache.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The zip-up collar gives it a preppy-casual vibe that can be zipped down and layered with a necklace, or zipped up with leg-elongating flare jeans and sneakers.—
Jeaneen Russell,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
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Even light, which zipped at breathtaking pace across the dark, took many human lifetimes to traverse a single galaxy.—
Angus Fletcher,
Big Think,
29 Sep. 2025
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Like marmalade, said to be from Marie est malade, the words whispered to a seasick Mary Queen of Scots by her maid, presumably while munching marmalade on toast.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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Before you were turned into a human s’more, how much investigation was there into what Ralph Fiennes whispered in Nick Hoult’s ear on the set of The Menu?—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Simpson has burst onto the scene in his first year as the Alabama starter after taking over for Jalen Milroe.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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About 700,000 years later, the strait burst open again, and a brutal megaflood filled the Mediterranean in a matter of months.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The base is a single can of black beans, whirred together in a food processor with taco seasoning or a quick pinch of whatever spices are around.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
14 Oct. 2025
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The machines whizzed and whirred.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Hummed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hummed. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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