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as in deafening
marked by a high volume of sound
loud music that could be heard all over the neighborhood
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as in noisy
excessively showy
his loud Hawaiian shirt made his face look especially pale
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Recent Examples of loud
Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
The music is loud, the front patio is smoky and the beer comes out sufficiently sudsy into the plastic cups.
—Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 7 Nov. 2025
Essence, 18 Dec. 2025
Why is the background noise in Hallmark movies so loud?
—Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
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Adjective
But hometown boy Bezos, who has a residence in South Florida, drew as loud applause on several occasions, first talking about the city.
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As someone who was part of ESSENCE’s very first issue, Cleveland’s return to center stage feels full circle—an icon still blooming, still reinventing, and still reminding us that art, like life, is meant to be lived out loud.
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My mind is capable of one word, one that’s all too familiar to me at this point in my life, but this time it’s amplified to an unprecedented and deafening level: panic panic panic.—
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But the film’s eventual record-breaking success was a deafening rebuttal from his loyal fanbase.—
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Simons also emphasized that December jobs data are among the noisiest of the year and should not be over-interpreted.—
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And then there is the noisy parade of vehicles passing nearby on their way to who knows what?—
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Witnesses told officers the couple had been loudly arguing near the east side of the walking bridge at the lake.—
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While the French film industry, like Hollywood, is overwhelmingly liberal (think of the walkouts at the César Awards when accused statutory rapist Roman Polanski won best director in 2020), some of the biggest Gallic stars of yesteryear have loudly bucked the trend.—
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If that isn’t a ringing endorsement!—
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That isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of the second-year signal-caller, and writers at The Athletic also don't seem to have much of a belief in Williams heading into the showdown at Lambeau Field.—
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Carruthers was by far the more amiable of the two, striving to seem tractable and reasonable while nevertheless lying flamboyantly.—
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The writing was pure, yet every column was lined with flamboyantly tasteful advertisements; the magazine was a kind of literary cash cow.—
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The 89-year-old child psychologist transformed a corner of the conservative movement into a roaring political force that shaped the national conversation and became the de facto base of the modern Republican Party that embraced performative piety as a precondition for viability.—
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This familiarity with the Wyoming wilderness perhaps explains why the game feels so authentic: Its roaring orange sunsets, powder-blue skies, lush green pines, and trickling turquoise waters.—
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The characters are bright, marionette-like caricatures whom the author constructs and moves ostentatiously in full view of the reader, revealing his artistic devices with a sense of absurd, mischievous humor.—
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Given that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex ostentatiously dropped nearly all their public commitments when moved to California in 2021, this seems to represent a turnaround.—
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Newsom said, to thunderous applause.—
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Harrison Reed’s thunderous late leveller against the reigning champions continued a run of five league games without defeat for Marco Silva’s side, who would move level on points with their rivals with a victory on Thursday.—
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“Loud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loud. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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