reverberant
adjective
re·ver·ber·ant
ri-ˈvər-b(ə-)rənt 
1
: tending to reverberate
2
: marked by reverberation : resonant
reverberantly
adverb
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the pastor's reverberant voice could be heard all over the cemetery as he read the final prayers for the deceased
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Interim head coach Antonio Pierce benches Garoppolo in favor of rookie Aidan O’Connell, setting up another reverberant comment from Adams.
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David Lombardi, The Athletic, 16 July 2024
The sounds and demands of our environments are constantly changing and introducing different types of competing noise, reverberant acoustics, and attention distractors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2019
In medieval Europe, villagers and monks who congregated in great cold churches chanted their prayers, also responsively, because that was how the words of their faith could waft into the vaults and acquire divine resonance before enveloping the faithful in reverberant song.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
This is an astonishing moment, eerie and reverberant with unspoken meaning.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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David Lombardi, The Athletic, 16 July 2024
The sounds and demands of our environments are constantly changing and introducing different types of competing noise, reverberant acoustics, and attention distractors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2019
In medieval Europe, villagers and monks who congregated in great cold churches chanted their prayers, also responsively, because that was how the words of their faith could waft into the vaults and acquire divine resonance before enveloping the faithful in reverberant song.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
This is an astonishing moment, eerie and reverberant with unspoken meaning.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Reverberant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reverberant. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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reverberant
adjective
re·ver·ber·ant
ri-ˈvər-b(ə-)rənt
: tending to reverberate
reverberantly
adverb
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