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Businesses have installed planters and other noisemaking devices to make staying in front of a storefront inconvenient.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025

“For all of the sort of noisemaking and fearmongering that was associated with the opening of that facility, it has been a complete nothingburger,” Davis said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2023

His approach on the guitar comprises a mix of atonal, slyly percussive dots and dashes; scattered speckles of notes; and occasional flashes of lyrical beauty, often augmented by electronic effects and extraneous noisemaking devices.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019

But hyping up the possibility of a Kaepernick deal without coming anywhere close to committing is nothing if not noisemaking.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2018

We danced until Big Ma told us to stop that noisemaking “like a herd of stampeding hippos.”

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia