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  • noun Plural form of cacophony.

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Examples

  • Are we actually supposed to take sabbaticals to search through their turgid cacophonies for a melody?

    If tokenism is what it takes to get on, so be it | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • Why, there are gibbering morons and jabbering blowhards, ersatz culture and artificial cacophonies, bleats of commerce and compulsations of advertisers!

    What Is On The Ol' Radio Machine? SwaG! 2010

  • Why, there are gibbering morons and jabbering blowhards, ersatz culture and artificial cacophonies, bleats of commerce and compulsations of advertisers!

    Archive 2010-01-01 splogman 2010

  • In eighteenth-century England and Revolutionary France, the masks, indecent parodies, musical cacophonies and outlandish costumes of street festivals often provided a convenient cover for insurrectionary activities.

    Sunday, January 28, 2007 As'ad 2007

  • Important issues are often not heard or discussed because of these unpleasant cacophonies of cynicism and negativism.

    MORE RUBBISH FROM RUSH News from Mad Plato 2007

  • Important issues are often not heard or discussed because of these unpleasant cacophonies of cynicism and negativism.

    Archive 2007-04-01 News from Mad Plato 2007

  • Dizzying surges in the ears, biting smells, ringing cacophonies of elusive patterns, queasy perturbations of the inner organs -- a Trainee had to know how these might convey meaning.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • A maelstrom of noise surrounded him: persuasive, singsong arguments of merchants, loud cries of outrage from overcharged cus'tomers, background cacophonies from minstrels and flutists, even sporadic clangs of daggers against shields or gauntlets.

    Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993

  • Colored lights and cacophonies whirled around Foyle.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

  • Colored lights and cacophonies whirled around Foyle.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

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