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as in hummed
to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound
seemingly out of nowhere, a baseball whished past my head
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Traffic hummed and whined on I-85.—
Thomas Lake,
AJC.com,
13 May 2026 -
To the right hummed Interstate 190; beyond the highway, the Niagara River; beyond the river, Canada.—
Dan Barry,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Refn has made characters moving and speaking in a benzodiazepine fugue state — lines hissed out stiltedly into dead air, spoken like throwing stones down a well — his signature in recent films.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 May 2026
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His line drive hissed past a leaping Steffen for a 3-2 Miami lead.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
19 Apr. 2026
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Outside buzzed the controversial Court Street bike lane, the subject of a recent lawsuit which Dornagon covered closely.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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Altadena buzzed with the sound of construction in late April.—
Aarne Heikkila,
NBC news,
14 May 2026
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The Ducks zipped the puck around the Vegas zone, and Gauthier found a seam pass through the heart of the defense right to Zellweger’s tape.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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The Mayor, after arriving with his chief of staff and first deputy mayor, zipped off a pair of ankle boots and joined the men on the floor.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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Its impact doesn’t hinge on a late revelation; in fact, the truth about the hurt that lies between these characters is whispered unequivocally throughout, and at one point illustrated explicitly.—
Carlos Aguilar,
IndieWire,
15 May 2026
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Two staffers next to me whispered to each other, catching up about their week off.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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“Whished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whished. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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