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cacophony
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  • He was suddenly assailed by a bewildering cacophony of voices.  (source)
    cacophony = combination of loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  • She saw Mama, sitting on a blanket, a cacophony of color that covered an acre in zigzag rows.†  (source)
  • I am listening, I thought, to the cacophony of my digestive tract.†  (source)
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  • She shrieked, that old baying cacophony, clawing at my ears, but there was no recognition in it.†  (source)
  • The factories turned out to be cacophonous hives of distaff bees.†  (source)
  • Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world.†  (source)
  • Cass and Eric moved in some panic through this crowd, trying to find a quieter place; through fields of French impressionists and cubists and cacophonous modern masters, into a smaller room dominated by an enormous painting, executed, principally, in red, before which two students, a girl and a boy, stood holding hands.†  (source)
  • Her appearance was greeted immediately by a cacophony of gunshots.†  (source)
  • The automatic doors swished shut behind me as if to seal out the contamination of the cacophonous crowd outside, held back by a metal barrier.†  (source)
  • Behind me, I could hear a cacophony of digital combat coming from dozens of other vintage arcade games.†  (source)
  • And I can pray for any Confedrit soldier' and then cried in his old man's shrill harsh loud cacophonous voice.†  (source)
  • A jackhammer chattered in the distance, joined by a cacophony of honking cars and a helicopter flying overhead.†  (source)
  • Help who?' called back Yossarian, once he had plugged his headset back into the intercom system, after it had been jerked out when Dobbs wrested the controls away from Huple and hurled them all down suddenly into the deafening, paralyzing, horrifying dive which had plastered Yossarian helplessly to the ceiling of the plane by the top of his head and from which Huple had rescued them just in time by seizing the controls back from Dobbs and leveling the ship out almost as suddenly right back in the middle of the buffeting layer of cacophonous flak from which they had escaped successfully only a moment before.†  (source)
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