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1. Blaring.

   He’ll dock with flags a-flutter, bands a-blare.

   1916, Charles Wharton Stork, “Sea Song”, in Sea and Bay: A Poem of New England, New York: John Lane, page 71

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   Market Street intersections were ablare with car radios tuned to “the game.”

   1959 August 3, “Charge!”, in Time

   The tropical night air on Saturday is ablare with the oompahs of a brass band, street lights abuzz with bugs, and thousands of Maya Indian farmers are jammed into a colonial plaza waiting for Vicente Fox Quesada.

   1998 May 11, Sam Dillon, “Early Bird Begins Mexico’s 2000 Presidential Race”, in New York Times