For example, towards the beginning of 'Cowboy' you hear a car passing in the night, and as the car goes swishing by, it drowns out the music.

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That social marketing hubbub is exciting, but it drowns out the quieter but much larger impact private online communities can have on business-to-business firms and their customers.

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It turns out that the noise on big-time Facebook walls almost entirely drowns out trends like those, but posting volume does spike when wall owners make it into the news.

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Illegal immigration is a serious problem, but our national focus on it drowns out discussions of other problems that are just as pressing, if not as public, like strategic immigration.

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Before the backwash of "Twilesque" derivatives drowns us, it is worth figuring out what to make of this.

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