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Recent Examples of rumble
Joe Guillen, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
Deep in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado a train rumbles down a mountain valley.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2024
Derrick Henry was unstoppable, running for 169 yards on only 15 carries — including an 81-yard rumble in the third quarter that set up Jackson’s fourth touchdown.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
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Verb
The move allows Duggan to break away from a Democratic Party in crisis mode and build a 2026 campaign focused on his accomplishments running the city for the past decade.
Detroit is rumbling toward a period of massive change.
—Joe Guillen, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
Deep in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado a train rumbles down a mountain valley.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
Founded in 2013 by Kern Brantley as a tribute to the late, great Funk Brothers bassist James Jamerson, the free event has become a staple of the museum’s late-summer calendar, summoning a mass low-end rumble at Motown’s birthplace.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2024
Derrick Henry was unstoppable, running for 169 yards on only 15 carries — including an 81-yard rumble in the third quarter that set up Jackson’s fourth touchdown.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rumble
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Remy and Mike are ready to call it quits after Bo (executive producer Jamie Lee Curtis) ostensibly falls to her death and Charlie (Mark O’Brien) growls his threats from Boston, but Ruth’s idea to use a tanker truck gets them back in with the hope of an even greater loot than before.Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024
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The small four-cylinder revs high to keep the power up, resulting a lot of growling in the cabin.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Bose QuietComfort Noise-canceling Bluetooth Headphones Droning out excess noises while traveling, like the rumbling of airplanes’ jet engines or the low thrum of conversations, has never been easier with the most comfortable wireless, noise-canceling headphones that our testing team has tried.Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2024
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Also among the early rumblings are figures holding other titles, such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg or Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.).Julia Mueller, The Hill, 30 Nov. 2024
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Although many far-right Republicans grumbled about the bill from the get-go, Johnson’s problem really began when billionaire Elon Musk launched into a thread on X (formerly known as Twitter) excoriating the deal’s details.Ben Ritz, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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All day, rank and file Republicans — and even committee chairs — grumbled about the process -- and the policy.Hans Nichols, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Rumble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rumble. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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