How To Use Hubbub In A Sentence
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There was a deal of shouting from Jamie's direction, and general hubbub, as a few people came out of the pothouse, staring.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten.
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I could hardly hear myself speak above all the hubbub in the theatre bar.
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From beyond the doors, the hubbub still continued; but it trailed off, damped by the hush of those in front to a kind of shamefaced muttering.
Funeral Games
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It was some time before the hubbub of laughter died down.
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There was a hubbub of excited conversation from over a thousand people.
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Many try to communicate with the agitators and policemen to find out what the hubbub is all about.
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Amidst all the hubbub about politician's perks last week, one chap escaped everyone's notice until it came up in Senate estimates this week.
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The chink of plates and the hubbub of conversation drifting from the pub failed to lure me in.
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Above the rising hubbub came the sudden, sharp hammering of a gavel.
COMPULSION
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I never really lived in L.A. I don't like all the hubbub.
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Another big audio crime is turning up your MP3 player to overcome background hubbub.
Times, Sunday Times
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She says that the media hubbub caused by our anti-prepubescent legislation opened the door to a handful of well-paying corporate gigs.
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The hubbub in the reception area was considerable among the gathering of journalists, show business people, and golfers.
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Had he sprung at her, or snarled, or shown any anger or resentment such as did the other dogs when so treated by her, she would have screamed and screeched and raised a hubbub of expostulation, crying for help and calling all men to witness how she was being unwarrantably attacked.
CHAPTER XXVIII
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When they got to the market, she remembered being awed by all the scents and sounds, the hubbub of the nearby villagers and passing tourists.
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Ves sat down at his usual table down the back of the room, away from the usual hubbub of noise, and dug in to his meal.
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Above the hubbub her voice rang loud and clear.
Times, Sunday Times
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I could hardly hear myself speak above all the hubbub in the theatre bar.
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Every minute the bustle and hubbub increased: porters staggered about with boxes and bags, the cornopean played louder.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
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For now, at least, that hubbub can die down.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a hubbub of excited conversation from over a thousand people.
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I could hardly hear myself speak above all the hubbub in the theatre bar.
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He tried to make a speech, but could not be heard over the hubbub.
THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
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The cries of street vendors hawking their merchandise rose above the hubbub.
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The hubbub subsided into a low ripple of murmurs.
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He has no use for the Tokyo hubbub and ventures outside only at his peril; the hotel's low-lit bar and its lounge act are more his speed.
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And the city is unbelievable too - a mad hubbub of noise and action.
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The great hubbub of the crowd made it futile to call for him.
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Recalling the best comedies of the era, the chatter in the early scenes is a hubbub of words, yet the sound is mixed so that Kane's voice rises above the others.
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From his letter last week he seemed to suggest that he would rather have the insane hubbub and grot of the capital transported to the Lakes so he can continue to feel at home.
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The only discordant note in the amicable hubbub was the sound of customers fighting over the right to settle their minuscule checks.
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Oh, please. I've been reading some of the hubbub about our latest release on blogs here and there, and I have to say that some people simply need to take a pill.
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‘I knew the time was there,’ said Coulthard, who had started the day by cycling round the route before the hubbub of the day began.
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They were built to attract wealthy clientele, seeking to avoid the hubbub of the city centre.
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After a few whistles and catcalls, the hubbub quiets to a tolerable level.
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The new hubbub is about building perceived value, with the tiny burgers often sold in bundles of two, three or even six.
In tough times, restaurants try mini burgers to get a nibble
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But an open-minded viewer in search of some profound silence amid the hubbub of daily urban life including the MFA's store, coffee counter and overbearing didactics elsewhere on the walls of its new Linde Family Center for Contemporary Art, where the Kelly show is installed can derive considerable pleasure from this show.
Beautiful, Quiet and Spare
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AWAY FROM the hubbub of the press call, Murray is relaxed.
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The story in Seymour about the old monk dying and trying to overhear a conversation about washing, over the pious hubbub of the surrounding crowd is bathetic in the true sense.
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The soundtrack to Rachel Lowe's video piece is more restrained - on two screens side by side we watch a woman smoke fags and drink coffee, and hear the fuzzy hubbub of the nowheresville shopping mall she's in.
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Air traffic control may be the danger area, but on a day like this you also start thinking about human traffic: the hubbub on the floor, the sheer moaning, agitated, sweaty-palmed mass of humanity on the ground.
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The multimillion-dollar question: do you stick to your knitting, unmindful of all the e-hubbub, or do you join the dotcom fever you can't lick?
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A confused babble of voices rose over the hubbub.
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Among the hubbub of dance beats and gyrating bodies grew a feeling of discovery, of enthusiasm for something new.
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Wih laik teh Baff alawt – itza gud plais tu getz obur teh jettlagz frum haveng tu crost teh Pond wiffowt haveng tu goe strait intu teh hubbub uv Lundun awl tyrd and grumpee frum teh lawng flite sitteng awn an brume foar awl tohse owers goeng akros teh Pond kan getz tyreng inz a hurree.
The Lord - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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They made a great hubbub amongst themselves, and whenever the old man showed his bald head on the foreside of the bridge, they would all leave off jawing and look at him from below.
Typhoon, and other stories
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Which means that the dramatic coastline and picture postcard village is a scenic escape from the hubbub of daily life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once the hubbub dies down, will the different groups and agendas continue to align?
Times, Sunday Times
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Its location, however, offers an easy escape from the hubbub of the downtown area and an ideal resort for enjoying rich cultural heritage and beautiful scenery.
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There was a hubbub of excited conversation from over a thousand people.
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As I walked I heard, rising above the normal hubbub of the market, the computer generated sounds of a video arcade - a tiny stall, open to the street, dim and dingy.
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I do wonder if there was the same hubbub over the phone as an end in itself with not enough emphasis given to the activities & businesses it enables.
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The hubbub subsided into a low ripple of murmurs.
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From the hubbub and colorful chaos of Delhi she journeyed to a town in the Midwest that shall remain unnamed.
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Inside, the aisles were packed with at least six or seven tour groups of varying nationality making such a hubbub that any contemplation or prayer would have been impossible.
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Amid the hubbub, modestly-attired women have arranged on rickety tables rainbow displays of vegetables and fruit, and offers of coconut milk and fresh-squeezed juice.
Free riding the roads of Mexico
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He escorted her into the living room where he found a scantily clad and disheveled young couple, who had ventured down stairs to investigate the hubbub.
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But above the hubbub, the unfamiliar strains of Scottish reels and jigs were rising on the warm air.
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Guinevere knew that this would be the door she would have to go out; she could even hear the hubbub of the crowd outside.
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‘The aim has been to produce a shopping hubbub,’ said Mr Adams.
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Shortly after 9am, the high-pitched hubbub of excited schoolchildren was replaced by the roar of heavy vehicles, shouting, barked commands and gunshots.
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A Whiggish clique, unable to harm her in any other way, banded together to damn the play and so endeavoured to raise a pudic hubbub, that happily proved quite ineffective.
A Memoir of Mrs. Behn
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After a few whistles and catcalls, the hubbub quiets to a tolerable level.
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The cries of children playing and street vendors hawking their merchandise rose above the hubbub.
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Many gay men rejected these connections and found long-term partners, often away from the hubbub of the emerging gay fast lane.
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And though the air, redolent of smoke and tar and hemp ensilage, was filled with the sounds of poultry cackling and a baby crying during the process of being put to bed, the hubbub in no way served to dispel the illusion that everything in the valley was but part of a sketch executed by an artistic hand, and cast in soft tints which the sun had since caused, in some measure, to fade.
Through Russia
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Much of what he has been saying has no doubt been lost in the hubbub over the recall process, but he has not really emerged as the powerful spokesman for free enterprise and unlimited opportunity that we expected to hear.
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What sounds greet your ears - the happy hubbub of engaged learners working on projects together or disruption and shouting?
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That way I can miss the crowded trains and the general rush and hubbub, and it should be a lot less stressful.
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As journalists protested, the lieutenant said above the hubbub: ‘We are going to open fire on this hotel.’
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But the Poulton Heritage Group wants to make sure that veterans of those historic days are not forgotten in the hubbub surrounding the festival on September 10, 11 and 12.
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I could hardly hear myself speak above all the hubbub in the theatre bar.
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This is what's known in the Pentagon as information operations and the Pentagon still is refusing to say whether that actually violates any Pentagon policy, despite all the hubbub.
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The loud hubbub of conversation, -- nearly all in German, -- the shouts of the waiters, the noise of their footfalls upon the stone floor, the sound of mugs being placed upon tables and of Max draining his "stein" of beer, bridged the hiatus between the ending of Max's narrative and the beginning of my own:
Tales from Bohemia
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In all the hubbub over the election, one might be excused for missing yesterday's announcement.
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Nearly all of the small, round tables, crowded too close for comfort, were taken, and the loud chatter of men and women, the handling of dishes, the going and coming of waiters, the more or less labored efforts of a _tzigane_ orchestra -- all this made a hubbub as loud as that in the busy street without.
The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life
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There's a jazz quartet playing mood music under the neon coloured strip lights barely audible in the hubbub of a full bar and seating area.
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I could hardly hear myself speak above all the hubbub in the theatre bar.
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The hubbub swiftly died away into the distance.
Plane Speaking - a personal view of aviation history
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The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten.
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Which means that the dramatic coastline and picture postcard village is a scenic escape from the hubbub of daily life.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is certainly a hubbub in the background.
Times, Sunday Times
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Greeks were enjoying the good life, filling quayside restaurants with a hubbub of chatter and laughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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She says: ‘We are really fortunate that we are able to live where we do here in Nairn and not in the heart of a big hubbub that is more similar to the hubbub of work.’
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He exchanged the time of day with the clerks hurrying to the railroad station; he did not disdain to ask the roadmender, seated on a pile of stones, how his labor was getting on, and where he would work next week; he leaned on the gate to listen as if enrapt to the groom and gardener of a neighbor of Clemenceau's, regretting that the hubbub of cracking guns and other ominous explosions was driving their master from home.
The Son of Clemenceau
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And now the whole table is a hubbub of voices.
Times, Sunday Times
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Above the rising hubbub came the sudden, sharp hammering of a gavel.
COMPULSION
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Friends say he reacted badly to being doorstepped amid the hubbub of arrival because he is always wary of the media (and has good reason to be).
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A few are 'smirting', that is flirting while smoking, while others are shouting to make themselves heard over the hubbub.
Times, Sunday Times
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They went there to have a nice, you know, retreat from all the hubbub of the capital city of Cuzco.
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A metachamber, not ringing with echoes at all, but with the grand hubbub that is the sounds of the little echo chambers (occasionally with a population of one) singing into the void.
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The teams won't want to be in the hubbub of London but they will want to be in the country, acclimatising and preparing.
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In fact I did read about a fantastic new device which can listen in on a hubbub (lovely word) of conversation and pick up each individual speaker and transcribe the speech.
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There's a jazz quartet playing mood music under the neon coloured strip lights barely audible in the hubbub of a full bar and seating area.
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Inside, the aisles were packed with at least six or seven tour groups of varying nationality making such a hubbub that any contemplation or prayer would have been impossible.
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By midnight, they'd shut the toilets completely, and, other than a steady hubbub of people talking and laughing and singing, there was little else of note.
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The soundtrack to Rachel Lowe's video piece is more restrained - on two screens side by side we watch a woman smoke fags and drink coffee, and hear the fuzzy hubbub of the nowheresville shopping mall she's in.
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The hubbub in the reception area was considerable among the gathering of journalists, show business people, and golfers.
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But hardly had they stumbled through the low doorway into the back-kitchen when a fresh hubbub arose inside — more shouts for help.
Westward Ho!
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The home to peregrine falcons, these riverside cliffs give a feel for what wilderness canoeing must be all about if you can ignore the hubbub from the river banks and the other canoeists and kayakers on the river.
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Friends say he reacted badly to being doorstepped amid the hubbub of arrival because he is always wary of the Scottish media (and has good reason to be).
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And after a loud hubbub went up, the little girl wearing the medal left and soon returned with a shellful of cooked papaya.
Left to Die
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But I tend to make them and not listen at all to them after I make them, which probably has to do with all the hubbub of promoting it, measuring it, and so much of that encumbers the joy of being able to make music that people want to come listen to.
Mike Ragogna: Chatting with Rickie Lee Jones and NRBQ's Terry Adams, Plus Miss Derringer's New Video and Hot Water Music's New Single
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I could hardly hear myself speak above all the hubbub in the theatre bar.
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The casual lawyer is telling his story somberly seemingly unaware of any of the hubbub around us.
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It was difficult to hear what he was saying over the hubbub.
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Are we really grown-up enough to abandon reporting restrictions and rely on jurors simply to ignore the background hubbub?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was in vain to expostulate with the palefaced Spectre who directed our course, I found myself surrounded by a hubbub of voices, and trunks of old clothes, (you know I am always busy in that way in my sleep) and the roar of the Sea-beach, mingled with loud discharges of immense Artillery place'd on Cliffs over our heads.
Letter 289
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Amidst the hubbub that Clinton was zipping up on human rights issues like Tibet to cosey up to the economy which could help hers out of its mess, I can't help but think she's got it right.
China gets Clintoned (or is it the reverse?)
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For the last thirty-six years poor France had been afflicted with all sorts of pernicious things: that "sonority," the tribune; that hubbub, the press; that insolence, thought; that crying abuse, liberty: he came, and for the tribune, he substituted the
Napoleon the Little
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The hubbub and laughter rang round the hall all day, occasionally to the accompaniment of music recalled from past years.
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The hubbub was so intense that it would be impossible to hold any private conversation.
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Once the hubbub of the election had died down, it was back to normal for the President.
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Where this is not observed, there is no real music, but only a devilish blare and hubbub.
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Another big audio crime is turning up your MP3 player to overcome background hubbub.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the shrimp hubbub was over and a little band had begun to play plinky, tango type music.
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You have never listened to your voice because of all the hubbub around you,’ she says.
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With so much hubbub, perhaps we’ll see new main title refreshes on a weekly basis.
The Simpsons brand new HD Main Title Open « Art & Business of Motion
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I think he liked to hear the hubbub going on in the background.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her obstinate search for justice, despite her advancing pregnancy and the opposition of her husband and his family, takes her to the bewildering hubbub of the city.
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They bring to mind the pop of Champagne corks, the confetti, the giddiness, the hubbub.
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In the hubbub of city life, it is hard for us to imagine the people and the things of the past, and how indeed these people felt about the world.
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The hubbub mounts, then, in an ever softening smorzando, peels away like sonar panty hose when an elderly man, a senior vice-president at Merrill Lynch, climbs precariously atop a table and croaks the announcement, in a hoarse old voice, that the Nikkei has opened sharply lower, yet not as low as many had feared, and that it shows signs of stabilizing.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
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Amid the hubbub surrounding a bevy of proposed trans-Atlantic stock exchange mergers, a faint Antipodean wail reminds that another tie-up also is in the works, and it's not going so well.
Australia's Not-So-Foreign Exchange
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_La Capitale_, were assembled in the vast editorial room, writing out their copy, in the midst of a perfect hubbub of continual comings and goings, of regular shindies, of perpetual discussions.
Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas
