Walter Farley
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The clamor on Broadway at midday can be astonishing to a tourist from a midwestern town; if they happen to be digging up the street with jackhammers, the clamor can be even worse. The clamor on the floor of a stock exchange goes on without stopping for seven hours every day. A clamor of protest may sometimes be quieter, but is often just as hard to ignore. A politician who receives a thousand emails a day clamoring for his resignation might as well be listening to an angry crowd.
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Examples of clamor in a Sentence
Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
Last weekend, the palace released a picture of her and her children, which turned out to have been digitally altered, only increasing the online clamor over what the monarchy might be hiding.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2024
In the clamor of the New York City news cycle, the criminal case currently playing out in Lower Manhattan against former President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras hardly registers.
—Wesley Parnell, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
The latest clamor has been for more long-range missile systems to target Russian positions within Ukraine.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
Amid the clamor of the modern media environment, a lot of events — even headlines that might seem indelible to those who do follow current events — simply wash over a large share of the population.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
All await amid a clamor of shouts and groans, punctuated by the metronome beep of hospital machines and the rumblings of bombs and heavy gunfire nearby.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
Amid the clamor surrounding the defection, Dr. Kahn pitched a freelance magazine story to the New York Times explaining the history of cryptology.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
But the governor is not immune to the growing clamor over crime — and Democratic political concerns about it.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2024
Karl Vick, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
Euphoria fans aren’t the only ones clamoring for school to be back in session at East Highland High School.
—Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
Third-party candidates clamoring and threatening to make a difference.
—Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
Whenever the nation faces a safety threat – e.g., a high-profile shooting, a wave of smash-and-grab robberies or an act of terrorism – the public clamors for action and politicians and police agencies respond with proposals to increase their power.
—Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2024
Insurance companies are unwilling to cover them, and with millions clamoring for them, there is now a shortage.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
As with Lee’s kimchi smash burger in New York, people have clamored to try Somsith’s spin.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2024
These costs, as well as concerns about trustworthiness and security, have slowed the widespread adoption of generative AI, even as executives have clamored to experiment with the technology.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
Arizona will have a Senate race for the fifth straight election cycle, with Democrats and Republicans both clamoring to hold their political bases while reaching for the stray independent.
—The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Noun and Verb (1)
Middle English, from Anglo-French clamour, from Latin clamor, from clamare to cry out — more at claim
Verb (2)
origin unknown
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
Verb (2)
1611, in the meaning defined above
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“Clamor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clamor. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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