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n. - Loud confusing disagreeable sounds; A loud harsh or strident noise.

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  • Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.
  • Adding to the cacophony is the remodeling of the upstairs apartment.
  • Their cacophony is making the biggest mark of the information age.
  • Walk but a few yards, and the cacophony is swallowed by a silence profound and sombre.
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