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as in buzzed
to be copiously supplied
one restaurant was humming with diners, while a neighboring eatery was practically empty
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as in zipped
to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound
a helicopter hummed overhead
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Recent Examples of hummed
While the offense hummed for most of the game, the defense struggled to neutralize Allen.
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Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Thick swarms of black flies hummed and knocked against the windows of an idling car, while crows and vultures waited nearby — eyeballing the taut and bloated carcasses roasting in the October heat.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
My tiny hands gripped the remote and punched the numbers in, and soon, the television hummed as pixels danced across the screen.
—Sarah Carrillo, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Her phone hummed with messages.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
The shoreline gleamed with the glacier’s blue ice while the sea hummed with life, from the eagles flying overhead to the otters cruising with us.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
The accordions hummed, and the guitars skipped, and the basses thumped.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 29 May 2024
But in the end, while the IPO engine has hummed, the car hasn’t started.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Thick swarms of black flies hummed and knocked against the windows of an idling car, while crows and vultures waited nearby — eyeballing the taut and bloated carcasses roasting in the October heat.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
My tiny hands gripped the remote and punched the numbers in, and soon, the television hummed as pixels danced across the screen.
—Sarah Carrillo, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Her phone hummed with messages.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
The shoreline gleamed with the glacier’s blue ice while the sea hummed with life, from the eagles flying overhead to the otters cruising with us.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
The accordions hummed, and the guitars skipped, and the basses thumped.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 29 May 2024
But in the end, while the IPO engine has hummed, the car hasn’t started.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hummed
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Fighters zipped around the city in flatback trucks and milled around in the streets.Suleiman Al-Khalidi, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
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The blanket can be zipped inside the pillow pouch for instant accessibility without taking up an egregious amount of space, and the back of the pillow is fitted with a trolley strap so it can be stacked atop your luggage to keep your hands free.Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2024
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Also overnight Tuesday, Ukrainian forces struck an oil-loading pipeline which burst alight near the city of Bryansk, 60 miles north of the Ukrainian border, according to Ukraine's General Staff.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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Or Shamar Joseph bursting through Australia in Brisbane.Tim Ellis, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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With details that have been whispered about for months and openly discussed (with no victims named besides Ventura) on social media and in more traditional media by songwriter Tiffany Red last year, the claims in this latest lawsuit could find Combs facing bicoastal courtrooms.Dominic Patten, Deadline, 29 Nov. 2024
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Someone whispered that the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the influential church in Harlem, was having a community-outreach event at the same time.Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Hummed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hummed. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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