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present participle of rumble
as in growling
to make a low heavy rolling sound when thunder rumbled in the distant sky, we wisely began packing up our picnic

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noun

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Recent Examples of rumbling
Verb
Expect to hear rumblings about potential roster moves for the Bears. Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025 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
Noun
With the events, neighbors came to expect rumbling trucks delivering food, decorations and furniture. Colson Thayer, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Only a few women sang, so the chorus had a deep, rumbling sound. Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rumbling
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rumbling
Verb
  • Hawke returns too, grumbling and growling behind a rubber mask (and, eventually, some grisly prosthetics).
    Katie Rife, IndieWire, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Food insecurity doesn’t necessarily mean kids are going to bed with growling stomachs every night.
    Oona Hanson, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There was nobody around, and the only sound was the whisper of the wind.
    Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Castle Hill Inn is said to be haunted by a female ghost, and whispers have been heard and presences have been felt at The Jailhouse Inn, which served its namesake purpose from 1772 to 1986.
    Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • She was also seen hugging the Italian fashion designer and whispering into his ear.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • There’s corruption, cover-ups, a tabloid journalist (Danny DeVito) whispering in people’s ears, and a Veronica Lake lookalike named Lynn (Kim Basinger, who won an Oscar for her performance) who’s caught in the middle of everything.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The very strong intimation is that I was nourished by this wasteland.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Donald Trump had already broken with international consensus by claiming, the month before, that Joe Biden’s intimations that Ukraine would one day join NATO had driven Russia to invade its neighbor in 2022.
    Samuel Moyn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • In some cases, weight gain or subtle behavior changes may be the only hints before the foal arrives.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Rader evaded capture for years despite having frequently contacted police and media to drop hints about his identity from 1974 to 1979.
    Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Emerging comics who have yet to build a solid fan base will struggle more than ever to cut through the noise — and even for comics with large existing audiences, this will be a headache.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But no matter your net worth, daily check-ins tend to create more noise than insight.
    Steve Hruby, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The image of David was a still frame from a Hamas propaganda video.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • For instance, the same tools that enable synthetic propaganda and deepfakes could also improve enforcement and reduce our reliance on human moderators to remove potentially traumatic content.
    John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Rumbling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rumbling. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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