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Recent Examples of rumble
Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
The next rumble decided for us.
—AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025
Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The neighborhood where Torres lives was mostly quiet on an afternoon this week — some music rumbling from a house nearby and the occasional bicycle horn sounded by a street vendor selling popular Latino snacks, including chicharrones de harina.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
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Verb
That chair, however, wouldn’t be able to take a reporter on a spin down the road the same way the buggy did, jumping curbs with a throaty rumble from the exhaust.
—Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
The next rumble decided for us.
—AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
Only a few women sang, so the chorus had a deep, rumbling sound.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The neighborhood where Torres lives was mostly quiet on an afternoon this week — some music rumbling from a house nearby and the occasional bicycle horn sounded by a street vendor selling popular Latino snacks, including chicharrones de harina.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rumble
Verb
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The scene’s amniotic shoppe Muzak is suddenly overridden by a deep, growling synth.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
23 Aug. 2025
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Go grab your passport, a wad of bail money, and enough thirst for wine that growls at history and food that tastes like the ocean punched you in the mouth.—
John Noakes,
Hartford Courant,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The convoy assembles In order to have a car show with loud exhausts and big rumbling engines in a residential neighborhood, Fizel had to make a few calls.—
Keenan Thompson,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
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The convoy assembles In order to have a car show with loud exhausts and big rumbling engines in a residential neighborhood, Fizel had to make a few calls.—
Keenan Thompson,
Freep.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Forget the summer of love; this has been the summer of our grumbling discontent.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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The novel, published to immediate controversy in India—an obscenity suit was filed over its portrayal of an intercaste romance—offended her Syrian Christian kin, who grumbled about misrepresentation.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Rumble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rumble. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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