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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Written soon after the death of Mahler’s daughter and soon before his own, the symphony is a sombre, reflective, and reverberant adieu, brewing such melancholy that Leonard Bernstein theorized that Mahler was foretelling his own end.
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The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Interim head coach Antonio Pierce benches Garoppolo in favor of rookie Aidan O’Connell, setting up another reverberant comment from Adams.
—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
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The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Interim head coach Antonio Pierce benches Garoppolo in favor of rookie Aidan O’Connell, setting up another reverberant comment from Adams.
—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
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“Reverberant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reverberant. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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reverberant
adjective
re·ver·ber·ant
ri-ˈvər-b(ə-)rənt
: tending to reverberate
reverberantly
adverb
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