Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
resound . - noun The
action of the verb toresound - adjective Having a
deep ,rich sound ;mellow andresonant - adjective That causes
reverberation - adjective by extension
emphatic ,celebrated
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- adjective characterized by resonance
Etymologies
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Examples
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President Bush today declared the Iraqi election to be what he called a resounding success.
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David, we've used the word resounding success many times.
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Agassi, who won the Australian Open in resounding fashion in January, said that winning five-setters early in a tournament could get him over the hump.
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Yesterday, FIFA announced total sales had surpassed three million, which a spokesman called a resounding success.
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And while the Iranian response cannot be characterized as a resounding yes, neither is it a categorical rejection of negotiations.
Trita Parsi: Why Washington Should Welcome Iran's Broadening of the Agenda 2009
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Although at some previous point amid my fitful slumber, I do seem to recall a resounding dastardly laugh of triumph, mixed with the receding clatter of a Blackhawk's rotor blades.
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A vote that President Bush calls a resounding success.
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KING: Would that trip have to be called a resounding success, based on world events?
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To hear my own name resounding amid acclamations in the hills of Westmorland was flattering, perhaps; but it was inconvenient at a moment when (as I was morally persuaded) police handbills were already speeding after me at the rate of a hundred miles a day.
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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But she could crash out of her remaining three races, and this entire effort would still have to be characterized as a resounding success.
statesman.com - Highschool Graham Dunbar 2010
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