bruit
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Exceptions: Your doctor hears a swishing sound, called a bruit, with a stethoscope, or you have had a stroke or mini-stroke.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2009
Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in the bruit of a large city, if one voice cries out above the turmoil, will not a babel of shouts rise from competitors ?
From Time Magazine Archive
Rocks of Sevastopol, echo our thunder-word, bruit it afar.
From The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems by Spencer Baird Nichols
The Arrowes of Mosco at the first made them pause upon the matter, thinking by his bruit and skipping, there were many Salvages.
From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Harrison Williams
She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015
Ans.—No, it iz an alterative; it alters dollars into pence, and men into bruits.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Meanwhile there were bruits of great doings in the north of Lincolnshire.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
Faults are descried and magnified; no sympathy is felt for the sufferer, but a vulgar curiosity bruits the ill-natured rumor, and many hearts must hence bleed in their unseen solitude.
From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
If any man shall revive a quarrel by any scandalous bruits or writings, contrary to former proclamation published by his Majesty in that behalf.
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
Argentina’s government has bruited giving AI agents “person” status so they can operate businesses and engage in contracts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
FDA officials also have bruited the possibility of requiring vaccine manufacturers to modify their shots by this fall to target the omicron variant.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2022
Stars and starlets sought his services, 1950s scandal sheets bruited his name and Mike Wallace grilled him on TV.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2021
Then to the teased and bruited main business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2016
He swallowed, and said, “Some men say there is wisdom in wine. Such men are fools. At other inns other names are being bruited about, never doubt.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The early bruiting of Lloyd Bentsen's name looked like a textbook case of strategic leaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those who are bruiting a new war are few in number though they may have great money power behind them.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wasn’t all that surprised he knew our code name the way people were bruiting it about.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
For her to wake up to it only now and run bruiting the stale information would be a ridiculous nuisance—a newsgirl howling yesterday's extra to to-day's busy crowd.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
McClellan's delays coincided with a bruiting of the news at Washington that foreign Powers were about to offer mediation.
From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams
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