shut

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Appeared in the March 27, 2026, print edition as 'Can the Federal Reserve Please Shut Up?'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The video ended by playing lyrics from Stormzy's song Shut Up, with those two words displayed in giant letters across the screen.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

Shut out by motion picture academy voters, the musical sequel could only manage two nominations — costume design and hair and makeup — with BAFTA.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

"Fire Shut Up in My Bones," the work of jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard and writer-director Kasi Lemmons, was the first opera by a Black composer or librettist to reach the Met stage.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2024

“My dear boy, I know so. Shut your eyes and we will be off.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White