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Your problem is that you were raised on fantasies of blatting muscle cars and Bueller-esque Ferrari Daytonas, and don’t know how to find something fun, affordable, and unexpected.—Brett Berk, GQ, 26 June 2017
An onboard synthesizer manipulates a small set of core sounds to mimic everything from the roar of a jet plane to the flushing of a toilet through a little speaker in the Brick.
This not-quite-title song, which is nearly eight minutes long, is a sort of mini-suite, opening with a dog barking, giving way to an acoustic-guitar melody accompanying polyphonic vocals, then becoming electric and crashingly alive, until the relentless screech of a guitar drags you to the end.
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Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
18 Dec. 2025
As the band blares, Georgia fans bark for the Dawgs and Alabama faithful screech Roll Tide.
Two of the monkeys had applauded the event with hopping and grunts, but the other three had shot like arrows into the trees, chasing after the peculiar bird that had remained indifferent to their antics.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
As for grunt, the new biz jet gets its juice from a pair of Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545D engines, allowing the aircraft to dart to a max speed of 441 knots.
The villas are new but already feel ancient (in the best possible way), pitched in a jumble of sugarcane fields, date palms, and donkey brays bellowing from the adjoining farm.
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Chris Schalkx,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Dec. 2025
Her two modes are either disengaged or bellowing — and that’s not really enough to tearfully deem someone an addict.
Junior Heifers One building was filled with the almost deafening hum of high-power hair dryers and the occasional moo.
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Chris Torres,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Jan. 2026
How moo moo came to be be The Facebook group and the resulting moo moo movement began with a conversation between Huckins and a friend, according to both women.