as in hums
a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion
the zoom of a motorboat off in the distance
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as in buzzes
to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound
a squadron of fighter planes zooming over our heads prompted thoughts of a terrorist attack
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as in speeds
to proceed or move quickly
race cars zooming around a track at breakneck speeds
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as in soars
to rise abruptly and rapidly
zoomed to a supervisory position after only a few short months
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Recent Examples of zooms
Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2025
Paintings and historical documents are presented via slow zooms, in and out.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Nov. 2025
With an absence of primary source footage or even photographs, The American Revolution relies heavily on familiar Burnsian tracking shots and zooms on paintings.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
The spinning ball zooms around a circular track so your cat can watch, prep and pounce, feeding their natural hunting instinct.
—Christine Persaud, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
The material is shot deliberately, with soft lighting, ominous slow zooms and a dramatic score.
—Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Shot and designed with verve, Holland’s film has significantly more formal ideas than the average great-man biopic, seemingly trying a new stylistic tack every few minutes, between sundry crash zooms and blaringly disruptive soundtrack cues.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
Almost every modern lens relies on digital corrections to some extent; the 20-200mm just leans on them more heavily than shorter zooms or prime optics.
—PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
Other advanced features include Hohem’s companion Joy app, which unlocks one-tap panoramas, Hitchcock-style dolly-zooms and CloneMe templates.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
The film, which tells the story of a 1980s teen who accidentally hops in a time machine and zooms back to 1955, first premiered in summer 1985.
—Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025
All the while, Cook spots a cutback lane to the interior, gives a couple of setup steps and zooms up the field for another big gain.
—Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
In 2014, Natarajan and Tal Alexander of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel described a scenario where one star in an especially starry region collapses into a large black hole that then zooms around like Pac-Man, hoovering up gas and ballooning to a huge size.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
As Styles zooms past, a small boy walking the opposite direction waves and catches the Grammy winner’s attention.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2025
The course zooms from the French coast to Genoa, Italy, taking a sharp turn past Giraglia, a small island off Corsica’s northern tip.
—Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
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With hints of Harry Potter-like magic afoot, the clip zooms to a close with a glimpse of a giant fireball glowing inside the building as confetti rains down on the group during a final, all-hands on-deck dance routine.
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When on Nantucket, Swain zooms around the island in a hard-bottom, Navy SEAL–style, super-high-speed raft, a type deployed by the military in Ukraine.
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Mechanical hums rattle the skyway’s roughly mile-long interstitial space, married with a cacophony of tires thumping over the hundreds of omni-directional, accordion-style joints that are designed to absorb any displacement, rotation or seismic movement.—
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The mountain hums with energy, but never chaos.—
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Lean too hard, exceed a set speed threshold, or approach a hazard, and the seat buzzes to alert you.—
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Moments later, her phone buzzes with an alert.—
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After the shooting, the SUV speeds into two cars parked on a curb before crashing to a stop.—
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This slows down the release of ethylene gas, which speeds up ripening.—
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The radiant will rest low on the northern horizon after sunset, but soars high overhead during the pre-dawn peak-viewing hours.—
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Deep in the Carrizo Gorge and high above the desert floor soars the Goat Canyon train trestle — the world’s largest such bridge made entirely of wood, the better to withstand the harsh conditions of the Jacumba Mountains.—
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This has translated into freakishly unstable songs that spin from garish wubs and witch folk to lullaby-like purrs.—
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But the other people who live nearby may not be so easily swayed by those adorable puppy dog eyes or precious purrs and might get very irritated.—
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Jackson scurries 14 yards up the middle for a first down.—
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The older dog is shown marching along, while the puppy scurries along, attempting to match its pace.—
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But there are several notable categories where the quality increases with cost, and one of those is noise-canceling headphones.—
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Pushing frozen branches upright quickly increases the chances of breakage.—
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When whispers of these new allegations began to receive national coverage, many outlets were cynical and tried to debunk them.—
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Normally, scent voices are mere whispers compared to the screams and angry shouts of humans, but in that section, certain sensitive plant species shrieked incessantly because of their proximity to plants that hindered their growth.—
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“Zooms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zooms. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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