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Recent Examples of rumbled
Facing a third-and-25 after a big penalty, Keller pulled out the tricks with a throwback pass from Brock Meek to Burkett, who rumbled 48 yards to the Texans’ 2-yard line.
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Jordan Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sep. 2025
But Kraft ran Harris over, rumbled to the 7-yard line and two plays later Josh Jacobs had a 2-yard TD run.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Tanks rumbled through Tiananmen Square, a location that offered a stark reminder of how authoritarian states can violently crush democratic movements.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
The early-morning thunderstorms that rumbled across the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys Tuesday also produced nearly 10,000 dry lightning strikes, sparking wildfires from the Mother Lode to the grasslands of eastern Sacramento County.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The Staten Island Expressway rumbled not far away; strip malls were visible to the east, and equipment that measures landfill gas poked through the ground at regular intervals—the trash beneath the park is still decomposing—and yet the air smelled sweet.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Thirty minutes later, a thousand timpani rumbled through the forest.
—AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025
Jordan Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sep. 2025
But Kraft ran Harris over, rumbled to the 7-yard line and two plays later Josh Jacobs had a 2-yard TD run.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Tanks rumbled through Tiananmen Square, a location that offered a stark reminder of how authoritarian states can violently crush democratic movements.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
The early-morning thunderstorms that rumbled across the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys Tuesday also produced nearly 10,000 dry lightning strikes, sparking wildfires from the Mother Lode to the grasslands of eastern Sacramento County.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The Staten Island Expressway rumbled not far away; strip malls were visible to the east, and equipment that measures landfill gas poked through the ground at regular intervals—the trash beneath the park is still decomposing—and yet the air smelled sweet.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Thirty minutes later, a thousand timpani rumbled through the forest.
—AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025
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“Rumbled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rumbled. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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