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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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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Dublin Literary Pub Crawl, the only tour that "simultaneously replaces brain cells as it drowns them", running for more than 20 years, takes you on a half-mile amble round some of the atmospheric old bars immortalised by Dublin writers, with a drink at every stop.

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Finning is also deemed cruel because the fins are often removed while the animal is still alive - it then drowns when it is thrown back into the sea.

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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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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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He gives speeches, he gives interviews, he says words, but he doesn't really rally people, doesn't create a wave that breaks over the top of the Capitol Dome and drowns the opposition, or even dampens it for a moment.

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