Recent headlines blare like warning sirens: oil prices soar to pre-recession heights and proceed relentlessly higher.

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Tunes blare from a free jukebox, and the air smells of fresh grilled beef.

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Note the stirring battle depicted in the Overture, where trumpets blare and drums pound frenzied, syncopated rhythms.

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Mr. Curtis must have adjusted the sound, for now the beeps seemed to blare through the entire car.

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As these ads blare at you from your favorite AM radio station, perhaps you wonder: How can this be legal?

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After all, a movie that earns an Oscar nomination almost always gets a box office boost, assisted by those ads that blare how many nominations the film received.

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Other prominent observers, such as social critic Stanley Crouch, claim that the deficits of hip hop blare beyond the borders of ugly art to inspire youth to even uglier behavior.

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The album tells the tale of doomed romance during the city's latest gilded age: Beneath the billowing guitar atmospherics, you can detect the rustle of hedge-fund dollars, the triumphal blare of the city's new business and art-world elite.

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Or so the headlines blare.

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