silent
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About the closest they’ll come to heterodoxy is keeping silent about various unpopular stances associated with the party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Children can, at times, sense their parents’ trauma surfacing in seemingly unrelated interactions, when Mom loses her temper or Dad goes silent.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
And in Justin Herbert — the strong-armed, silent type — they’ve got one of the most talented quarterbacks in the league.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Lord insists Shaun was not kept silent to boost international sales, it simply "seemed better that way".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
She lay her head back on her pillow, and was silent for a while.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Vocabulary lists containing silent
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ant, -ent
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Spelling Practice 2, Unit 8
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"First They Came for the Communists"
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