Essentially, Darboven makes a movement vis a vis repetition, a sort of whir not unlike the relentless whir of time, the sound of speed at the back of one's neck.
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The vibrating whir of tattoo needles can be incredibly therapeutic.
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I could hear the distant whir of a printer revving up.
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And there's actually no "chugging," but rather a spacey, high-pitched whir.
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The only sign of strain is the constant, low whir of the fans.
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"You can't..." he began, before the whir of the approaching BART drowned him out.
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"I get why he's doing it," he said over the tractor's whir and beeps.
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The tall, remote-controlled cones of padding whir along Memorial Field's turf like R22002-D210.
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In the mornings, I could hear the whir of someone's electric toothbrush through the wall.
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Upstairs, stacked industrial fans whir, blowing strips of fabric or plastic out toward the viewer.
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These whir in the air and pummel the ground and catch the light like helicopter blades.
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So far today, she has been slightly scatty—a whir of activity and lost car keys.
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It was a tinny whir, the smooth rush of a fan coming out of a vent.
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We hear the whir of a chopper right above us, and then it dive-bombs us.
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The thump of Latin music on South Beach was replaced with the whir of mechanical saws.
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At other moments, it recalls the whir of helicopter blades in the distance or an accelerating car.
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In one office, watch 3D printers whir, making knobs and propellers to build even more 3D printers.
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Watching Deepwater Horizon, helicopters had a satisfying whir to them that seemed to thump in my chest.
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So listen closely to the cars driving past your window, or the whir of your washing machine.
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The rumble of a backhoe digging into the building's remains and the whir of helicopters overhead dominated.
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Ms. Sanchez has learned to watch for drifting droplets or the whir of a helicopter spraying overhead.
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As their machines whir, Louise and the rest gape across the cosmic divide and into the unknown.
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The noise of the studded tires and Bosch motor do combine to form a steady whir of sound.
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"Huh," I thought, as I looked up from my book and saw a slightly unfamiliar landscape whir by.
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The soft whir of the warp engine on a star ship will almost certainly help you drift off.
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This is a beautifully designed device with gentle swooping curves, slim bezels, and fans that only softly whir.
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In the worst scenarios, as in the case of Whitney Houston, public struggle becomes a whir of humor.
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The unintentional hilarity here is that Lewis's bold leap is more of a whir forward on a Segway.
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When the skies above New York are filled with sunshine, warm breezes and the disturbing whir of helicopters.
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Most mornings, we admire the hummingbirds, little bejeweled creatures that whir and rush and rest at our feeder.
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"There was this hum of new construction, kind of like a whir, with lights and generators," he said.
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Art, fashion or in between, Ms. Kawakubo's creations bring us close to the unmistakable whir of artistic ambition.
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Virtual reality began inauspiciously: bulky headsets and buggy programs, campus theaters haunted by the whir of overworked processors.
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First, there was the loud whir of the fans that required a bit of a shout to converse over.
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The whir of the gears give way to a vacuuming noise as the machine quickly sucks the fish inside.
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These days you might just make out the lifeless whir of 200 high-speed servers over the ticking clock.
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Dried porcini pack a lot of flavor, so whir them in a food processor for a powerfully savory rub.
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Some prisons in the U.S. have taken to installing sensors that listen for the soft whir of a drone motor.
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And the weird whir of the powertrain in the first-gen model has diminished, making for a better-sounding ride.
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At night, after stories and turning out lights, both girls and I lie in bed, listening to the fan whir.
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My stepfather's voice came loud and clear over the whir of the wood splitter he was working 50 feet away.
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We joke that the whir of the boats motor and gentle rocking must be taking her back to the womb!
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On the recent "Good For What," a whir of tough North London bristle, the rapper born Simbiatu Ajikawo contemplates early successes.
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In his studio, though, a nest of towering stacks of mixers and synthesisers that blink and whir, he becomes someone different.
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All electronics whir and whine, but monitors specifically produce a type of acoustic emanation that proves particularly useful for an attacker.
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Then you press a single button, and with a little whir, a USB-C plug pops right into the phone's port.
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The juxtaposition of the silent whir of sleek Tesla electric vehicles, with the outbursts of the mentally ill on the sidewalks.
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He functions at the core of a system that's based on selfless tendencies that whir opponents into a dizzy self-combustion.
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The fans do whir endlessly when the machine is idling, so you'll probably want to cut the power between cutting sessions.
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Just sit back and enjoy the whir of all the moving parts, and trust two spellcasters to bring it all together.
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Inside Alphabot, these wheeled robots whir quietly as they move vertically and horizontally along the shelving system, retrieving and depositing bins.
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He had to shout over the whir of blowers and the racket of machinery echoing from other regions of the hangar.
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In a whir of motion and fatigue green, they stoop over Dafna, soothing and sedating her, then tucking her in bed.
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Surrounded by love and friendship and desert sand, cacti clinging to the whir of time passed and the bliss of the present.
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Watch it build up to that speed and just zip around and around until it starts smoking and becomes a total whir.
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But upon leaving the gallery and hearing the whir of nearby construction, you're likely to think: Maybe somewhere, but probably not here.
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When I turn it on and the whir of the faux-AC snaps to life, any bed feels much more like home.
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LAGOS/ABUJA, March 1800 (Reuters) - Two men in grey jumpsuits brush glue onto rubber soles, while factory machines whir in the background.
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Now she spends her days frozen in bed, serenaded by a Latin music radio station and the mechanical whir of her respirator.
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External sounds and sights bleed into this exhibition, which also resonates with the whir and creak and tinkle of sculptures in motion.
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There's a nationwide epidemic of anxiety and loneliness and a whir of existential dread, acutely among young people, about our warming planet.
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Then, we begin to hear the whir of a helicopter in time with the sound of the newbie boxer's fists hitting the bag.
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The miners and gold were already gone, scattered by the whir of helicopter blades, but armed troopers in camouflage burned tents and generators.
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Fans noticed that as the letters whir and change, they appear to spell out the names of songs from her upcoming fifth album.
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I threw it all together, slapped the button and made it whir, returning to the yard with a sloshing cup full of 'slop.
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As his wife and son slept, he heard the whir and chop of rotor blades above the two-story house where they lived.
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The whir of generators could be heard throughout the city, a sound not expected to dim soon as crews work to restore power.
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Samples are sped up to a surreal, chipmunk whir or slowed down to a dirgelike pace, at times clashing with the furious rhythms.
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It can create spacey, Jetsons-like sounds, engine-like revs, a neutral whir or anything that fits the car and meets the requirements.
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When the machine is turned on, a wind tunnel starts to pull in air from a giant fan, which generates a deafening whir.
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In London, passengers were being ferried around by a small fleet of electric taxis, nicknamed Hummingbirds for the distinctive whir of their engines.
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This entry kiboshed "spin" at 23A (it should be WHIR) and provided the necessary anchor for what was, for me, the toughest corner.
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The room was cramped, its walls chipping blue paint, the noise from the streets above drowned out by the whir of a fan.
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LOS ANGELES — For celebrities and the rich of Los Angeles, the helicopters that constantly whir above the city are a glitzy status symbol.
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Sprawled on a couch in the robot workshop of his company, Momentum Machines, he raises his voice over the whir of an industrial saw.
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Inside its beige business park facilities, a five-minute drive from Facebook HQ, rows of nondescript black server racks whir and blink and vent.
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Although the stool proved unnecessary, I did look away when I heard the whir of an electric saw that would soon open a skull.
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The family arrived at the Vegas strip and entered a casino, where the "spinning whir of the roulette wheel" caught the Branson teens' eyes.
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The team soon fell into a rhythm, talking softly over the whir of the machines and the overlapping beeps of the two heart monitors.
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At age 6, I remember the light filled openness of the house, how the whir of my mother's vacuum floated from room to room.
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The alternative — moving his parents to the village, where motorbikes whir and teenagers banter on cellphones — would be too wrenching in their old age.
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He turned right for no reason, and on that block, as he walked, some invisible industrial fan seemed to whir violently, sending up trash.
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As I bore witness to many feats of computing prowess in Apple's quiet Tribeca apartment, I never once heard the whir of a cooling fan.
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And in the N.B.A., the days of Allen Iverson's driving the lane as a whir of churning feet and swirling polyester seem to have passed.
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The work began and ended in silence; one sequence was accompanied by electronic music that built from a quiet hum to an uncomfortably loud whir.
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Sandler injects his familiar meandering whir of a voice into a more hostile context: How he bends it is as important as what he says.
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That's why the loud whir of rotors isn't a facet of daily life in Dallas or Miami, say, where the highways are relatively wide open.
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The moment I hit the enter button, a locker the size of my parcel sprang open a little way down the wall, with a satisfying whir.
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About 20 minutes later, I was sipping my very first (quite delicious!) espresso and checking my email when I heard the machine whir back to life.
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The goal, obviously, is to lull humans into a state of calm as the rest of Affetto's body, spiked and bladed, can whir them to pieces.
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Inside a pitch-black hall the size of a football field, a trio of surveillance drones whir overhead, honing in on visitors when they detect movement.
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NO SOOT, LESS NOISE At its Smiley, Texas, oil and gas well site, EOG's crew carried on casual conversations despite the whir of e-frac pumps.
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The tunnel magnifies the train's whir, which has left the property undeveloped and, at least in my own experience as a longtime nearby resident, rarely used.
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Cooley's protégé, Bud Frazier, continued the work of refining artificial hearts, eventually championing a design in which the device doesn't pump so much as continually whir.
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One night, as I wearily approached the sink, I realized the last thing I wanted to experience was the frantic whir of yet another spinning gizmo.
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The shiny modern stations are filled with dozens of workers and a steady whir of buzz saws, but the line appears remarkably close to being done.
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To whir in the goods, the smugglers strapped them onto the drones using fishing line and hooks and then flew the clever 'copters over the prison walls.
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Then we connected her nasogastric tube to the blue-and-white plastic feeding pump and listened to the machine whir and beep as it fed our baby.
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Placed behind the two seats, you hear at least one of the turbos whoosh and whir every time you gently touch your foot to the accelerator pedal.
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And during the bus tour's three-day slide show of American brawn — a whir of iron, hard hats, factory dust and well-placed American flags — even Mrs.
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The whir of activity comes not from conditions in the world but from the ceaseless mechanism by which unpleasantness can be laundered and made fathomable, even manageable.
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But this book's focus is particularly laserlike — a whir of financial angst, disreputable Wall Street behavior and hang-in-there optimism about slogging through President Trump's reign.
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Once you find the portal, you're gonna throw everything you can into it, just for the satisfaction of hearing the electric sound of whir-zrrrp every time.
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In the southern city of Salinas, where she lives and works as a environmental activist, large electricity generators whir at all hours, powering her neighbors' refrigerators and fans.
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Fans whir as the pieces beckon visitors to lean into them, to prod and poke and feel the response of the unexpectedly robust sculptures as they push back.
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That calm life I once imagined—the whir of the spinning wheel, new cloth blowing on the line, fat sheep dotting the field, our easy laughter—is impossible.
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With a soft whir, it gyrated back and forth, causing a bulge in his jeans that Jodie knew would cause a spike on her iWatch's heart rate monitor.
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Suddenly there is a whoosh, a whir, and a stir among the spectators — and because you are a racing fan, you forget your quibbles as the adrenaline kicks in.
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More than crickets and fireflies, more than baseball and cookouts, perhaps nothing signals the arrival of summer in the United States like the soft familiar whir of air-conditioning.
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The nine-foot thick concrete walls, floors and ceilings are all smoothed over, humming with the whir of ventilation ducts and the low buzz of battery-powered LED lighting.
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Ceiling fans whir softly over the audience in those initial spaces, making it difficult to hear, especially when Mr. Greenspan lowers his voice to a whisper or moves upstage.
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But what makes it an effective bird-deterrent—besides the loud whir of its four spinning propellers—is a built in megaphone that blasts predator calls and bird distress cries.
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The whir of activity is all the more impressive after the small firm nearly collapsed in late 2015 - amid unrestrained production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
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At the upwards of 3,000 rural palenques (or mezcal distilleries) in Mexico's colorful, but poor state of Oaxaca, that satisfying whir of the blade is an all-too-familiar sound.
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Click here to view original GIFImagine a world where robots creep up on you: Electric motors just a gentle whir, hard shells changing color to blend in with their surroundings.
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The buoy would record ambient ocean noises, from the whir of passing ships' propellers or the vibrations of distant offshore oil drilling, to the high-pitched clicks of Beluga whales.
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At 3 PM, when you would normally see children playing in public after school, it is so quiet that you can even hear the whir of the cotton mills nearby.
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The cooking is serial in nature: Toast the chiles, nuts and seeds; char onions, garlic and tomato; whir them all together in a blender to create a base for the sauce.
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A whir of robots and machines is only occasionally disrupted by the sound of human voices, creating the feeling that, somehow, this massive factory could drone on forever without much supervision.
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TOKYO — The Nidec Corporation likes to say it makes everything that "spins and moves," from the intricate motors that whir in hard drives to the hulking ones used on oil rigs.
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Then you whir the dripping-wet kale in a blender with some garlic and the olive oil that the garlic was fried in and season it all with salt and pepper.
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Now the narrow strip of 123th Street, between 10th and 11th avenues, is chockablock with luxury apartments, and the whir-bang of construction in nearby Hudson Yards signals more to come.
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Formula E replaces the roar of gas-powered Formula One cars with the whir of an electric engine, which, even when racing at 140 miles per hour, barely hits 80 decibels.
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After a whir around your filthy room, the Roomva shuttles to the Clean Base and empties itself out into a cleaning tower than can hold up to 218 bins' worth of debris.
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You can set the app to enhance certain sounds (maybe you need to hear more around you) or filter out stuff like a crying baby or the whir of a subway train.
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I woke up one morning feeling queasy and achy from my first treatment, listening to the whir of a portable pack pumping the drugs through a steel medical port in my chest.
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But short of using them to get sleep, the noise-canceling effect seems sufficient enough to at least hush the whir of airplane engines while you're watching a movie or listening to music.
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The real "deep state" in Washington is made up of the thousands of federal bureaucrats of the federal branch who chug and whir their way along regardless of which party is in power.
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You pick the scent you want from the app, including coconut, guava, and lavender, and seconds later little fans inside the device begin to whir, spreading your chosen scent in a small radius.
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If the Virgin Islands had an unofficial state song, it would be the rattling whir, buzz and chop of a bar blender — a bit of noise pollution that is inescapable in most bars.
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The steady rhythm of the mattock, the turn of the shovel, the whir of the weed eater as it chews its way through flora and fauna in a wide arc in front of me.
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The motors whir a little loudly, but in the tiny section of the parking lot that the company was allotted to perform these drives, it felt quick in the same way most EVs do.
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There's no doubt the whir of the high-tech hair dryer comes in at a different pitch than the blustery Conair, but it's not like you're safe from waking your sleeping roommate with the Dyson.
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But being able to share a laugh or poke fun at yourself is the lubricant that many of our best -- and most successful -- politicians have used to make the gears of government whir into action.
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It's hard not to—to me at least, it's that kind of instant-click experience, where all the moving parts whir and hum in a kind of sweet harmony that only the best shooters possess.
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Anyone who has performed for three people in the back of a juice bar, trying to land a punch line over the whir of a blender full of kale (for example) can vouch for that.
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I also began to break into a cold panic every time I heard its mechanical whir in the distance, often sprinting to the kitchen to make sure I had remembered to place a cup under it.
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Most effective in the burden-lifting endeavor is a quiet background processing, letting the mind whir and softly untangle its knots (if this metaphor seems mixed, consider this: the mind is a complicated and busy place).
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Michael Golfo, who is legally blind, began to inch off the curb at Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street on his way home from work on Tuesday after sensing the whir of traffic moving to his left.
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In years past, a Polaroid was synonymous with instant pictures: With one click, the camera would whir, print a filtered version of the real world, then slowly let its film develop as it was met with light.
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On winter nights, the white-noise app on my phone is tuned to Air Conditioner: a raspy, metallic whir that sounds like the mechanical noise that might echo deep inside the ductwork of a huge commercial building.
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Like Rike, you settle into the luxurious peacefulness, a stillness augmented by the water's rhythmic splashes, her bustling movements and the boat's gentle cacophony — the flap of the sails, the whir of the winch, assorted pleasant creaks.
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With a couple of deft fakes and a whir of her stick, Lamoureux-Davidson sent the puck skittering past Canada's goalie, giving the United States the 3-2 victory and their first Olympic gold medal since 1998.
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Neighborhood Joint Earlier this month, with deadlines for the Kentucky Derby rapidly approaching, hat makers at Christine A. Moore Millinery worked at top speed, accompanied by the Jackson 264's "ABC" and the steady whir of sewing machines.
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Over the whir of drills and the crackle of welding torches, he explained how workers had spent the last several weeks demolishing the concrete-and-steel floor of the huge room where the city's mail once was sorted.
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To make pineapple shrub: Combine 12 ounces pineapple juice, 3 ounces rice wine vinegar, 9 ounces sugar and 1 ounce whole coriander in a blender and give a quick whir to break the coriander up just a bit.
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Yet we never forget for one second that we're watching actors in fancy dress; behind the curtain of cattle cars and starving workers, above the noise of the explosions, we can hear the moviemaking machinery clank and whir.
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It's a matter of time, experts say, before automated drones will whir past humans in increasingly popular competitions hosted by the Drone Racing League—and before they can use similar technology to handle complicated tasks in real life.
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Tied with a Missoni ribbon, the braid is an eccentric flourish to her pragmatic short hair — not altogether surprising from the woman who figured out how to turn knits into a kaleidoscopic whir of zigzags, stipples and stripes.
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Before that, I did everything by hand, switching arms when I got tired, or turning to an ancient, wheezing electric whisk that would bend if it met cold butter and whir to a halt after a minute or two.
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"We do need tariff-free trading with the eurozone," Rowan Crozier told Reuters, speaking over the whir of the large machines nearby which suck in coils of metal at one end and spit out tiny precision-cut components at the other.
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Compared to the massive metal turbines that whir away in coal-fired or gas-fired power stations, the sails on wind turbines don't have the same heft, or inertia, that helps the overall grid tick along after a fault occurs.
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The whir of electric drills, the sharp pop of hammer blows and the beep-beep-beep of construction equipment backing up were almost drowning out the British artist Cornelia Parker on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week.
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In the farm's two vast buildings, tens of thousands of mining machines whir away, producing a huge amount of heat, so the buildings are open to the cold Icelandic air at either side, save for particle filters to trap dust.
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The only sign of strain is the constant, low whir of the fans — but, to be honest, my faithful Air cranks up the fans pretty often these days, even when it's just running macOS, and it did so even before Sierra.
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In a demo video published by Samsung on Tuesday, Ballie can be seen rolling around the house and opening smart curtains, setting off washing machines, and even instructing a robotic floor cleaner to whir into action after it detected spillage.
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A destroyer was as dull as a one-horse town until you heard an airplane's whir, then it was 20 minutes of anxiety while the observers identified the aircraft, and an indeterminate stretch of terror if it belonged to the enemy.
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We've tested all of these options in recent times and found them all to be very good in what they do, easy to setup and maintain, and happy to whir away in the background with a minimal number of interruptions and annoyances.
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His obsessive work on Mr Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" (1979) is compared to that of an orchestra conductor's: Mr Murch put different editors in charge of different noises—the whir of helicopters, the putter of riverboats—and then brought all of their contributions together.
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A fallen palm frond the size of a surfboard hadn't been on the ground more than a few minutes before an employee pulled up in a golf cart, lifted it onto the roof and drove off, trailing an electric whir, and then, silence.
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The village's buildings are instruments, ranging from an elegant metalwork structure created by Swoon and Darryl Reeves that has blaring horns activated by levers to Klass Hübner and Andrew Schrock's "Chateau Poulet," where pulled ropes whir sonic fans into an eerie hum.
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Then I work my way into the storm, and in the distance, two builders are battling—one fortress against another, with the whir of rocket grenades in the air—so I ramp up to another one and gun him down while he's preoccupied.
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Thundersticks were allowed–and the Korean throngs certainly got the memo–but each time an archer drew his bow, urgent "shushing" was followed by a severe hush and a whir as his thin, barreled arrow flew up to 160 miles per hour.
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Credit...Elliott Verdier for The New York Times ANGERS, France — The relentless whir of machines echoing across a cavernous French factory floor this week is an unexpected result of the deadly virus that has nearly paralyzed cities in China and other parts of Asia.
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The viewer is treated to shots of the pirates riding in cars through the city at night, a middle-aged man asleep on public transportation, and cats, as well as scenes of the band recording screams, moans, claps, belches, and the whir of power tools.
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An old Nono collaborator, the sound engineer Alvise Vidolin, was at the controls for "Ricorda Cosa Ti Hanno Fatto in Auschwitz" (1966), a tape piece that renders perilously fine the line between the humane balm of a chorus and a whir evoking mechanized death.
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With a dull whir, the fluid begins to circulate across the arteries, capillaries and veins of the brain in a loop, exiting on each circuit through a dialysis unit that "cleans" any waste products and through a filter that removes any naturally occurring bubbles.
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The whir of choppers and the buzz of chain saws were all that was heard on Monday near the mining town of Itogon as workers looking for bodies dug through the mud using shovels and their bare hands — the ground too wet for heavy machinery.
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Ties She was rushing past me into the bathroom, a whir of caramel skin and blue jeans and reddish-brown locs flying behind her, when I noticed the patch of uneven Afro stretching across at least a third of the back of her head.
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With raised phones, everyone—everyone—ogles intensely, photos click and whir, there's recording, Instagramming, broadcasting on Snap, and there is Lopez at the center of the feverish, rising adulation, an emerald twister of beauty, waiting to be captured, waiting, once again, to be remembered.
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Back in 2016, my colleague Scott Eden described the HyperAdapt 1.0's sound as "the noise you might make if you were doing the robot"; the Adapt BB's, with its muted purr-whir that rises a half-step, is more like a baby Transformer waking up.
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This vibrant and teasingly cacophonous work featured mini-concertos for each ensemble member: a tangy steel pan solo for Mr. Quillen, incandescent drum kit fireworks for Mr. Treuting, and a broody marimba soliloquy for Mr. Sliwinski (needled by the whir of a small band of windup dinosaurs).
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Seeing 8mm film, pornographic or not, is a rare experience in the "Netflix and chill" era, and the opportunity to hear that whir of celluloid passing through a projector at 24 frames a second for 25 cents a pop was not one I could pass up.
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Every clunk sounds solid, grenades thwomping and thwacking around confined spaces; machines whir and buzz with that same practical-effect weight, that industrial build quality, you get in the movies; and the aliens themselves screech with more authentically blood-freezing hostility than in the Sega game.
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As we walked, the wind whipping off the East River and the metal-on-metal of J, M and Z trains rattling beside us and the whir of microfiber generated by the swinging of his arms combined to nearly drown out his voice, which hadn't grown one decibel louder.
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There would be no rough brushing, no angry whir of a blow dryer, no annoying beeps of the Beachwaver, no high-pitched YouTube tutorial blaring in the background, no one banging on your door telling you to hurry up because we really should have left for the party 10 minutes ago.
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — A short drive from President Donald Trump's Bedminster golf club, where residents can hear helicopter blades whir when the president touches down at his "Summer White House," Trump and the tax plan he signed into law last year will help to define one of this year's pivotal House races.
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They had a two-year-old son, Jacob, who used to toddle near the canvas now and then—oblivious to the tick-tack-whish-whir of leather jump ropes grazing the painted floor and the uneven cadence of gloves pummeling duct-taped heavybags until the sickly buzzer signaled the end of three minutes.
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There was the click and whir of a printer, and then he handed us a miraculous document: a sheet of paper listing what we needed to know about dorm rooms at Kenyon College, what items the college would provide, what we could and could not bring, and what we might want to buy.
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But Ms. Ahmad, 39, was not without the warmth of family to greet her when she stepped out of a Mercedes-Benz in front of 141 Worth Street wearing a blush-colored wedding dress amid the whir of cameras, the sun peeking at her from behind dark clouds on a chilly day.
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As we asked her question after question, Yoli, her honey-colored arm resting behind her on the duvet, faced me and Matt on our folding chairs pulled up close, while I struggled to understand her Spanish over the whir of a fan, tapping out notes on my computer, eager to make legal order of her narrative.
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Slowly our main vector of information shifts from sight to sound: the slap of her shoes on the pavement, the buzz of failing electrical wires, the keening whir of car alarms, squealing tires stopping short in the sudden absence of streetlights and stoplights, the pulsating hum and ominous strings of composer Mac Quayle's never-better score.
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"The Brexit crisis looks like it may be heading into an awkward period of uncertainty as the cogs in the British and EU bureaucracies slowly begin to whir into action," said Angus Nicholson, a market analyst at spreadbettor IG. Lien added that the political uncertainty in Britain translated into a long wait in the forex market, and that it did not bode well for currencies.
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Vows Pastor Twanna Gause stepped out of a limousine amid the whir of cameras outside the New Vision Full Gospel Baptist Church in East Orange, N.J. Dressed in an off-white wedding gown and veil that sparkled in the cascading sunshine, she carried a bouquet of white roses and lilies, hugged several guests, then parted a sea of well-wishers on the way to her best friend, Pastor Vanessa Brown, who stood waiting at the altar in a cream-colored long coat called a sherwani and gold Punjabi jutti shoes.
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