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Recent Examples of sibilantSpelling Bee Tedious, invidious, devious, conquer, identify, magnify, sibilant, uranium.—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 What’s the rule on forming a singular possessive of a name ending with a sibilant?—Daniel Foster, National Review, 19 Sep. 2024 The superb soundtrack deepens that push-pull, in the sibilant whoosh of ocean waves, the gentle percussion of rain against a city window, the incessant murmur of an airport terminal.—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023 The insectivorous choruses actually synchronize their sibilant symphonies in a deafening, but gorgeous, hum.—Ross Kenneth Urken, Scientific American, 14 June 2021
Before the referee had even dropped the whistle from his mouth, Erling Haaland galloped onto the pitch with a coach clearly tasked with readying him to replace Omar Marmoush at the break.
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Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
These included animal bone pendants, a potential whistle made from a snail shell, and human remains.
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