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Robin George Andrews, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
There are rumblings and questions about whether this is a championship-caliber roster, and Frank didn’t shy away from acknowledging the outside noise.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
There have been no rumblings yet on the John Stewart casting.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 23 Sep. 2024
An aggressively staccato piece with an ever-present rumbling on the bass side on the keyboard turned into a Jelly Roll Morton-esque swing.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 2 Aug. 2024
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Iceland’s volcanologists, for example, have managed to decode the seismic rumblings of the peninsula’s underworld, and track the changing shape of the ground itself, to know precisely when and where the next eruption will begin.
—Robin George Andrews, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
There are rumblings and questions about whether this is a championship-caliber roster, and Frank didn’t shy away from acknowledging the outside noise.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
There have been no rumblings yet on the John Stewart casting.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 23 Sep. 2024
An aggressively staccato piece with an ever-present rumbling on the bass side on the keyboard turned into a Jelly Roll Morton-esque swing.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Rumbling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rumbling. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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