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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
Offense has largely hummed when Bo Nix is decisive.
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Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Lost in our mind frequency, which hummed loud now like a drone.
—Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Cicadas hummed as the sun set over the Kansas City, Kansas, Unified Government Municipal Building Tuesday, as a crowd of somber faces turned towards a Kansas City, Kansas Police Department vehicle.
—Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
Interstate 10 hummed with cars rushing north toward Phoenix, drivers pushing to get ahead of what was bearing down on them.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The tension between us hummed just below the threshold of language.
—Eileen Kelly, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2025
My class hummed with quiet resentment.
—Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Instead, this publication has hummed with creative, ennobling intellectual tension and debate.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Apr. 2025
Yoshi hummed, bobbing his head.
—Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Lost in our mind frequency, which hummed loud now like a drone.
—Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Cicadas hummed as the sun set over the Kansas City, Kansas, Unified Government Municipal Building Tuesday, as a crowd of somber faces turned towards a Kansas City, Kansas Police Department vehicle.
—Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
Interstate 10 hummed with cars rushing north toward Phoenix, drivers pushing to get ahead of what was bearing down on them.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The tension between us hummed just below the threshold of language.
—Eileen Kelly, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2025
My class hummed with quiet resentment.
—Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Instead, this publication has hummed with creative, ennobling intellectual tension and debate.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Apr. 2025
Yoshi hummed, bobbing his head.
—Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hummed
Verb
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The air buzzed with laughter, connection, and anticipation.—
Essence,
Essence,
20 Oct. 2025
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Each week, social media has buzzed with his latest one-handed reception or shape-shifting juke.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Landscaping crews zipped along cemetery roads around in carts as sprinklers shot water across green lawns.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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The zip-up collar gives it a preppy-casual vibe that can be zipped down and layered with a necklace, or zipped up with leg-elongating flare jeans and sneakers.—
Jeaneen Russell,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Just hearing this phrase whispered on the other end of the phone is enough to send a chill up your spine.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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Like marmalade, said to be from Marie est malade, the words whispered to a seasick Mary Queen of Scots by her maid, presumably while munching marmalade on toast.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Messi picked up the ball from his compatriot Rodrigo De Paul in midfield and burst toward the backpedaling Nashville back line before slipping the ball outside to Luis Suárez.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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The areas facing the sun heat up fastest, and if there is a weaker area on the surface of the comet, sublimated gases under the surface can burst through — causing these sun-facing jets.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The base is a single can of black beans, whirred together in a food processor with taco seasoning or a quick pinch of whatever spices are around.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
14 Oct. 2025
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The machines whizzed and whirred.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Hummed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hummed. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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