muttered
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Then, turning to me, she muttered, “Not according to the internet this week. I’m joking!”
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
“After overhearing a passionate ideological dispute around her own kitchen table between the future Nobel laureate for literature and his radical friends from the University of Chicago, she muttered: ‘Smart, smart, smart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
By 02:00, the last muttered conversations faded away.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
I muttered my song again: “Flying in circles for 90 minutes somewhere near Rochester.”
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2025
He rubbed it between his palms and muttered a few words, which I did not understand.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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