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The chord progression and clattery percussion on “Dead Women” evoke “Lay Lady Lay,” while Mitski’s song imagines someone pawing through her things after death, trying to uncover her secrets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Disney Hall is famed for its vivid acoustics, yet at relatively close proximity details could be still be hard to pick out in the clattery texture.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2021

Sharma’s life was in flux the day in April when she hopped into a clattery auto-rickshaw to head out to the property she owned.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2016

Ficarra and Requa have ambitions; their scenaristic cleverness pervades the movie from beginning to end, with their bright and clattery dialogue and their exotic plotting.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 2, 2015

In the moment's awkward silence that ensued, the little inn's clattery kitchen wafted up its pleasant, odorous, noon-day suggestion of coffee and bacon.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell